The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
Extraordinary mental capacity.
Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.
One who believes in transcendentalism.
Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.