Perceiving directly, without a medium, vicarious representation, symbol, or phenomenon; perceiving the object immediately as it exists.Pertaining to a knowledge (especially, but not exclusively, an immediate knowledge) of a thing as existent.Not determined by other cognitions; not discursive; of the nature of a first premise; immediate; self-evident; reached without reasoning by an inexplicable and unconscious process of thought.Presenting an object as an individual image; not general.