<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension</li><li>a fact, truth, etc., perceived in this way</li><li>a keen and quick insight</li><li>the quality or ability of having such direct perception or quick insight</li><li>Philosophy: an immediate cognition of an object not inferred or determined by a previous cognition of the same object</li><li>any object or truth so discerned</li><li>pure, untaught, noninferential knowledge</li><li>Linguistics: the ability of the native speaker to make linguistic judgments, as of the grammaticality, ambiguity, equivalence, or nonequivalence of sentences, deriving from the speaker's native-language competence</li></ul>