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

My friend, in other words, considered his intuition, based on the concept of motion, to be more reliable than the knowledge accumulated by humanity over the past four centuries. — Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026

Call it instinct, or perhaps intuition, but something was suddenly, seriously wrong with his healthy 5-week-old son, Kenji. — Robbie Owens, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Other times, my intuition turned out to be wrong, and there was no real arbitrage opportunity after all. — Alec Litowitz, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026

The Water element has everything to do with our emotions and intuition, while the Fixed modality is known to fixate, quite literally. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2026