intuition
noun/ˌɪntjuˈɪʃən/
Frequency rank: #7,319 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a feeling or understanding that comes without conscious reasoning.
Example sentence
She had a strong intuition that something was wrong, even though she had no proof.
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