verb
intuit
in-TOO-it/ɪnˈtuːɪt/
To understand something without conscious reasoning.
She intuits that something is wrong before anyone explains it.
Etymology
The pieces convey “looking at”: direct mental perception is treated as a kind of seeing. In this sense, the verb may have been formed from intuition, the noun for such immediate insight.
In context
You develop physical intuition as a tool for making those decisions of what's worth calculating. Then you intuit something, then you go in and do a calculation
More examples
- Some children intuit the rules of a game just by watching.
- He intuited what she needed without having to ask.
- Intuiting the answer is easier than explaining how you know.