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intuition Definition

in·tui·tion (in′to̵̅o̅ is̸h′ən, -tyo̵̅o̅-)

noun

  1. the direct knowing or learning of something without the conscious use of reasoning; immediate understanding
  2. something known or learned in this way
  3. the ability to perceive or know things without conscious reasoning

Etymology: LL < L intuitus, pp. of intueri, to look at, regard < in-, in + tueri, to look at, view

intuition Related Forms
in′·tui′·tional adjective in′·tui′·tion·ally adverb
intuition Synonyms

intuition

n.

presentiment, foreknowledge, inspiration, sixth sense; see feeling 4, hunch 2.

intuition Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • enhance: He has spent the last twenty-five years studying ancient tools that enhance intuition.
  • express: It is a set of metaphors and images and a language for expressing intuitions honed after years of training.
  • develop: This concept is useful in developing an intuition for what drives the cost of assembly.
  • call: On the highest level is the vision of the spirit; that which we call intuition.
  • require: Analytical thinking requires both intuition and reason, or more correctly, both intuition and insight.
  • have: Unfortunately, I fail to have any intuitions about " say " !

Converse of subject

  • guide: Let me give you a practical example of being guided by intuition from my own experience.

Adjective modifier

  • feminine: She mocks the convention of ' feminine intuition ' .
  • geometric: His treatment has the great merit of being completely algebraic in character and of meeting every difficulty without an appeal to geometric intuition.
  • psychic: How astrologers combine psychic intuition and science to guess the lottery numbers?
  • moral: Our most basic moral intuition, according to Feldman, is simply stated: we ought to do the best we can.
  • pure: In its purest form intuition is about understanding how we function on the inside, knowing what we are truly like.
  • mathematical: An example of Hahn's ideas on mathematical intuition are given in extracts we reproduce in the article Hahn's crisis in intuition.

Modifies a noun

  • cannot: However, he recognizes that this intuition cannot be relied on.
  • function: An ENFP is likely to start to solve a problem by using the iNtuition function.

Noun used with modifier

  • sense: I believe that this common sense intuition is basically sound.

Possessives

  • woman: Queen S: You can't fight women's intuition, you know, Fergus.
  • one: However, I do not wish to suggest that one's intuition that they are is entirely stupid.
  • people: When numbers are high, he says, people's intuition fails them, and they tend to grab at round figures irrationally.

Preposition: of

  • two-oneness: Likewise, the intuitionists ' claim that only the intuition of two-oneness is legitimate may be acceptable in only temporal and limited ways.
intuition Quotes

   What do the facts we know about a man amount to? Only two things we can know of him, and this by pure soul-intuition: we can know if he is true to the flame of life and love which is inside his heart, or if he is false to it.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsöor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.

—Mumford, Lewis

All are deceptions, substitutes for the hard job of using reason and industry and intuition and compassion to solve even a little bit of the muddle with humaneness and awe for the natural world and the complexity of human beings.

—Wilson, SirAngus FrankJohnstone