- intuitive (adj.)
- 1640s, "perceiving directly and immediately," from Middle French intuitif or directly from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from intuit-, past participle stem of Latin intueri "look at, consider," from in- "into" (see in- (2)) + tueri "to look at, watch over" (see tutor (n.)). Meaning "self-evident" is from 1833. Related: Intuitively; intuitiveness.
