Intuition

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A looking after; a regard to.

II. Intuition ·noun Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.

III. Intuition ·noun Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness;

— distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, ·etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.