| intuitive | 1. Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision. 2. Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning. "Whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive." (Milton) 3. Received. Reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; opposed to deductive. Origin: Cf. F. Intuitif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| intuitive stage | In psychology, a stage of development, usually occurring between 4 and 7 years of age, in which a child's thought processes are determined by the most prominent aspects of the stimuli to which he or she is exposed, rather than by some form of logical thought. (05 Mar 2000) |