Intuition
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1 - Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition

From Latin intuitio = act of contemplating, fr. intueri = to look at, contemplate, fr. in-+ tueri = to look at, look after (protection - tuitio ).

1. immediate apprehension or cognition
2. knowledge or conviction gained by intuition
3. the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
4. quick and ready insight

adj: intuitional

intuitive:

1. known or perceived by intuition: directly apprehended
2. knowable by intuition
3. knowing or perceiving by intuition
4. possessing or given to intuition or insight

intuit: to apprehend by intuition