Intuitive, a.
Etymology: [Cf. F. intuitif.]
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. Locke.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for intuitive; he lists it under transcendental.
Where he writes about it:
Intuitive truths are those which are in the mind independently of all experience, not being derived from experience nor limited by it, as that the whole is greater than a part, or that things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another. — from transcendental
All intuitive truths or beliefs are transcendental. — from transcendental
But transcendental is a wider term than intuitive, including all within the limits of thought that is not derived from experience, as the ideas of space and time. — from transcendental
Transcendental has been applied in the language of the Emersonian school to the soul's supposed intuitive knowledge of things divine and human, so far as they are capable of being known to man. — from transcendental
Antonyms
none given