means the ability to understand or know something immediately, without conscious reasoning or evidence.

from From Latin intuitio, 'a looking at, contemplation,' built from the verb intueri — in- ('at, upon') plus tueri ('to look at, watch over'). So at its root, intuition is literally a kind of inward gazing: not figuring something out step by step, but simply looking and seeing. It entered English in the 1400s via Medieval Latin, first carrying a more spiritual or philosophical sense of direct apprehension before settling into the everyday 'gut feeling' we mean today.