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intuit

Verb transitive. To guess but with greater confidence and less foundation. To speculate omnisciently. Obviously reverse-derived from the adjective "intuitive".
My wife has intuited the second wave of UFOs in lock step with the tides.
by slickwilly March 7, 2005
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Intuit

Describing people, who's life experience is influenced through intuition. They value inner, spontaneous feeling, above surface appearances, ...
A pun from The "Inuit" native people of Alaska;
Intuit's generally identify with the Neurodiversity Movement, emerging from the Autism Spectrum Community.
Intuit's are often referred to as "sensitives".
The term "Intuit" is intended to be a bit playful, but at the same time, a meaningful conveyance of one's unique cognitive processing style; predominately influenced, by an immediate felt sense of experience.
I consider myself an Intuit. Feelings or intuition, have a major influence in my decisions.
by arbordwell May 30, 2017
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Intuition

The ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. Or a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.
Use your intuition wisely
by Anon127M March 22, 2020
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mother's intuition

An immediate unreasoned understanding that a mother has toward something regarding the well being of her child.
Jane didn't want her son Billy to go to the party. Her "mother's intuition" sensed something bad was going to happen.
by Noraaaaaaaaaa November 19, 2013
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Intuitive Hindsight

Claiming to have known something was going to happen, when in actuality you were genuinly suprised. Often this is done simply to save face.
"Hey mom! I just went skydiving!"

*after being visibly suprised* "Oh. Somehow I knew you'd do something crazy like that."

"Nice try, mom. I can tell Intuitive Hindsight when I see it."
by Doc Vegas November 11, 2009
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Microwave Intuition

To pop something in the microwave, and then leave. Then to suddenly drift back towards the microwave just in time to when it hits 0. Basically, to be able to tell when your food is done, just by your intuition.
"Hey, why does Joe always get his food so quickly?"

"He has microwave intuition"
by Volleyball Blaiser October 5, 2011
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Inuit

The proper term for Eskimos, a people who live in arctic Canada, Alaska USA and Greenland. Closely related to the Aleut. Also Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit, which has a very complex agglutinative grammar that can express entire sentences in a single long word.

(Inuit is plural, Inuk is singular.)
An example of Greenlandic Inuit:

Ataqqinassusermik inuup nammineq pigisaanik aammalu anooqatigiinnut ilaasortaasut tamarmik naligiimmik annaasassaanngitsumillu pisinnaatitaaffeqarnissaannik akuersissuteqarneq nunarsuarmi kiffaanngissuseqarnermut, naapertuilluarnermut eqqissinissamullu tunngaviummata...

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world...""

(From the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.)
by LudwigVan February 22, 2004
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