gut feeling

English

Noun

gut feeling (plural gut feelings)

1. (idiomatic) an instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale

   Don't think too hard about the answers to a personality test; just go with your gut feeling.

   Susan had a gut feeling she was being followed, so she hurried to her car.

Related terms

• gut instinct
• gut reaction

Translations

an instinct or intuition

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直覺 (cmn), 直觉 (cmn) (zhíjué) (intuition), 預感 (cmn), 预感 (cmn) (yùgǎn) (premonition)

• Finnish: näppituntuma (fi), tunne (fi), aavistus (fi), mututuntuma (fi)
• French: intuition (fr) f, pressentiment (fr) m
• German: Bauchgefühl (de) n, Intuition (de) f
• Japanese: 直感 (ja) (ちょっかん, chokkan) (intuition), 予感 (ja) (よかん, yokan) (premonition)

• Portuguese: pressentimento (pt) m
• Russian: шестое чувство (ru) (šestóje čúvstvo) n (sixth sense or feeling), внутреннее чувство (ru) (vnútrenneje čúvstvo) n (internal feeling), интуиция (ru) (intuícija) f (intuition), предчувствие (ru) (predčúvstvije) n (premonition), чутьё (ru) (čutʹjó) n, нюх (ru) (njux) m (colloquial, "scent")
• Spanish: presentimiento (es), corazonada (es)