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gut feeling (plural gut feelings)
- (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.
Houston had a gut feeling he was being followed, so he hurried to his car.
2021 April 29, Sabrina Tavernise, quoting Jeff Huntsinger, “Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:“At the root are these moral intuitions — these gut feelings — and they are very strong,” said Jeff Huntsinger, a social psychologist at Loyola University Chicago who studies emotion and decision-making and collaborated with Dr. Omer’s team.
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an instinct or intuition
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: intuïció (ca) f, pressentiment (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 直覺／直觉 (zh) (zhíjué) (intuition), 預感／预感 (zh) (yùgǎn) (premonition)
- Danish: mavefornemmelse (da) c
- Dutch: buikgevoel (nl) n
- Finnish: näppituntuma (fi), tunne (fi), aavistus (fi), mututuntuma (fi), perstuntuma
- French: intuition (fr) f, pressentiment (fr) m, réaction viscérale f
- German: Bauchgefühl (de) n, Intuition (de) f
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- Japanese: 直感 (ja) (ちょっかん, chokkan) (intuition), 予感 (ja) (よかん, yokan) (premonition)
- Korean: 직감(直感) (jikgam), 예감(預感) (ko) (yegam), 육감(六感) (yukgam)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: magefølelse (no) m
- Polish: przeczucie (pl) impf
- Portuguese: pressentimento (pt) m
- Russian: шесто́е чу́вство (ru) n (šestóje čúvstvo) (sixth sense or feeling), вну́треннее чу́вство n (vnútrenneje čúvstvo) (internal feeling), интуи́ция (ru) f (intuícija) (intuition), предчу́вствие (ru) n (predčúvstvije) (premonition), чутьё (ru) n (čutʹjó), нюх (ru) m (njux) (colloquial, "scent")
- Serbo-Croatian: šesto čulo n
- Spanish: presentimiento (es) m, corazonada (es) f
- Swedish: magkänsla (sv) c
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