A fork of Rural Dictionary
A woman's intuition is like a superpower that a woman is born with, and it remains with her forever. It is this little albeit powerful voice inside of her spirit. Like a good cop trying to protect her, it warns her of dangerous situations. It will likely save her life several times. A woman's intuition is a gift from God.
Keshia: You gotta hear this.
Faith: What is it?
Keshia: A few weeks ago, a guy asked me out, but I turned him down because I had an uneasy feeling about it. This morning, I was watching the news, and I saw that that same guy was arrested for assault. I'm lucky I didn't go with him.
Faith: That ain't luck, that's your woman's intuition.
In general, intuition means knowledge you have, that you are not consciously aware of. (It does not mean "feeling" or emotion.)
Most of the data your brain processes from your environment, is unconscious. But to be "intuitive" is to tap into this unconscious data particularly well.
Intuition can take several forms:
(1.) Intuition as flight/flight/instinct-
This is when your brain picks up on subtle environmental cues and rings an alarm bell like a lightning bolt of clarity, that something is about to go seriously wrong. It could be a person's micro-expressions or body language, a change to a structure or physical object, a combination of sounds...Or any number of things. But whatever it is, your unconscious mind recognizes it and is trying to save your ass.
(2.) Intuition as any kind of knowledge you have, you aren't consciously aware of.
A really intuitive person, could potentially watch a Kung Fu movie. Forget about it. Get in a fight. And only then realize they remembered a lot of the moves.
Another example would be hearing the show Jeopardy play in the background, because someone else is watching it. Maybe their mind is on their laundry and they're not really paying attention to the show. Nothing registers at the time. But a couple weeks later at college trivia night, they realize they have all these answers to random historical facts they didn't have before.
To tap into your intuition, is to tap into all of your brain's hidden resources.
Something that tells you about somebody.
Samuel L. Jackson knocked on his white neighbors door trying to tell him to turn his rap music down, but seemed suprised he would like that kind of music. The guy explained that it was his kind of shit, but that his wife Nicole hated it, she only made music from a genre that was half jazz half hip hop because nobody had ever done that before, not because she really liked the music. This made Samuel L. Jackson mad, so he proceeded to menace this punk in the backyard with a weedwacker and tell him how bad he was, because he knew this guy was weaker than him through intuition.
NOUN
1. the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.
2. a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.
1. "we shall allow our intuition to guide us"
2. "your insights and intuitions as a native speaker are positively sought"