All 4 Uses
intuition
in
The Alchemist, by Coelho
(Edited)
- The boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having set foot in the desert before.
p. 76.1intuitively = instinctively rather than through reasoning
- But he was excited at his intuitive understanding of the camel driver's comment: maybe he was also learning the universal language that deals with the past and the present of all people.
p. 76.8intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
- The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life,
p. 76.9 *intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning
- Now his intuition was that he had been right in coming.
p. 110.4intuition = something believed based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning
Definitions:
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(1)
(intuition) something known based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning; or the ability to know things in such a manner
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)