Synonyms of intuition

intuition

noun

as in instinct

an innate sense of what is true or what will happen

Although the child looked fine, the parents' intuition told them something was wrong.

Related Words

• instinct
• insight
• feel
• suspicion
• foresight
• anticipation
• impression
• foreknowledge
• discernment
• perception
• prescience
• sixth sense
• premonition
• presentiment
• prognostication
• foreboding
• presage

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of intuition

The Moon, tied to intuition, moves through your 12th House of Solitude and conjoins healing Chiron there, opening gentle space to notice what your heart whispers. — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026

Witchy intuition tells her that the dowager queen can’t be trusted, but her boyfriend won’t hear it. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026

As the moon and Mercury harmonize, accurate intuition comes in handy. — Usa Today, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2026

But the legal system’s binary standard—sane and guilty, or insane and not—fits imperfectly with human intuitions about culpability in tragedies like the Clancys’. — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 30 July 2026