直感

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 直感(ちょっかん) is an immediate feeling or perception that comes before step-by-step reasoning.
• Basic usage: It is used for choosing a route by intuition or sensing that something is missing from an explanation.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• How one chooses and what one senses
  • 直感で選んだ means that a choice was based on intuition.
  • In 何か足りないと直感した, the content of the intuition comes before と, and 直感した functions as a verb.