intuit

/ɪnˈtjuːɪt/

Etymology

A back-formation from intuition and intuitive; compare Latin intuitus (“observed; considered”), perfect participle of intueor (“to look at, upon or towards; to observe, regard; to consider, contemplate”), from in- (“in, inside”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”)) + tueor (“to look or gaze at”). Related to tuition, tutor.

intuit means to know intuitively or by immediate perception. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.

Why this word is great

INTUIT — [Verb] To know or understand something immediately through instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. A back-formation from 'intuition', from Latin *intuitus*, the past participle of *intueri* ("to look at, contemplate"), from *in-* ("at, on") + *tueri* ("to look at, watch"). Unlike “deduce,” which constructs a conclusion from logical scaffolding, or “perceive,” which traffics in sensory data, to intuit is to receive knowledge whole, a silent transmission. It is the sudden chill before a silent phone rings, the unshakable certainty of a lie in a loved one’s voice, or the weightless click of a solution arriving after conscious effort has ceased—a private, unbidden glimpse behind the curtain of cause and effect. It is the mind seeing in the dark.

verb

To know intuitively or by immediate perception.“Accordingly ſome have been pleaſed to name the complex of the phaenomena, so far as it is intuited i.e. apprehended immediately, the ſenſual world, but ſo far as its connection is thought according to univerſal laws of understanding, the intellectual world.”