intuition

Language: en

🇬🇧 /ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃən/ 🇺🇸 /ˌɪntuːˈɪʃən/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    The ability to understand or know something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning or logical analysis; a gut feeling or instinctive understanding.; A thing that is known or understood by intuition; an intuitive perception or insight.; In philosophy (especially Kantian), the immediate apprehension of an object by the mind without the intervention of any reasoning process; direct cognition.; In mathematics, an informal understanding or mental picture of a concept that guides reasoning before a formal proof is constructed.; The faculty or power of gaining direct knowledge or understanding without inference, observation, or rational thought; a cognitive process that operates below conscious awareness.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable / uncountable Plural: intuitions

Collocations

gut intuitionrely on intuitiontrust one's intuitionhave an intuitionfemale intuitionintuition tells me

Derivatives

intuitiveintuitivelyintuitivenessintuitintuitable

Synonyms

instincthunchgut feelingsixth senseinsightprescience

Antonyms

reasonlogicanalysis

Commonly confused

instinct
EN: 'Instinct' refers to an innate, biological drive or reflex, while 'intuition' refers to a subconscious cognitive process of understanding without conscious reasoning.
intuit
EN: 'Intuit' is the verb form meaning to understand by intuition; 'intuition' is the noun.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember the 'ui' sequence in the middle: in-tu-i-tion. Do not write 'intution' or 'intuision'.

💬 Examples

  1. Her intuition told her that something was wrong, even though she couldn't explain why.

  2. He had a sudden intuition that the deal would fall through at the last minute.

  3. Kant argued that space and time are forms of intuition rather than empirical concepts.

  4. The geometric intuition behind the theorem makes the result seem almost obvious.

  5. Experienced doctors often rely on intuition to make quick diagnoses in emergency situations.