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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: grasping the inner nature of things intuitively [syn: insight, sixth sense]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1761 a power of perception like but not one of the five senses ; a keen intuitive power

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that someone has a sixth sense, you mean that they seem to have a natural ability to know about things before other people, or to know things that other people do not know. The interesting thing about O'Reilly is his sixth sense for finding people who have good ideas. N-SING

Moby Thesaurus

ESP, a priori knowledge, anticipation, buddhi, chromesthesia, clairsentience, clairvoyance, color hearing, direct apprehension, extrasensory perception, five senses, foresight, hearing, immediate cognition, insight, inspiration, intuition, intuitionism, intuitive reason, intuitiveness, intuitivism, knowledge without thought, lucidity, phonism, photism, precognition, premonition, psychometry, receptor, satori, second sight, second-sightedness, sense organ, senses, sensillum, sensorium, sensory organ, sight, smell, subconscious knowledge, subconscious perception, synesthesia, taste, touch, unmediated perception