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intuition

See also: Intuition and intuïtion

English

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Etymology

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From Middle French intuition, from Medieval Latin intuitiō (“a looking at, immediate cognition”), from Latin intueor (“to look at, consider”), from in- (“in, on”) + tueor (“to look, watch, guard, see, observe”).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪntjuːˈɪʃən/, /ˌɪntʃuː-/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɪntuˈɪʃən/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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intuition (countable and uncountable, plural intuitions)

  1. Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4:
      The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of
      intuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions
      about sentence well-formedness, and (ii) intuitions about sentence structure.
      The word intuition is used here in a technical sense which has become stand-
      ardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has intuitions about the
      well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the
      ability to make judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or
      not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]
  2. A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

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The term has been used with at least the following adjectives: artistic, emotional, linguistic, medical, mental, moral, physical and spiritual.

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Danish

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Noun

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intuition c (singular definite intuitionen, plural indefinite intuitioner)

  1. intuition

Declension

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Declension of intuition
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gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative intuition intuitionen intuitioner intuitionerne
genitive intuitions intuitionens intuitioners intuitionernes
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Finnish

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Noun

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intuition

  1. genitive singular of intuitio

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin intuītiōnem.

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Noun

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intuition f (plural intuitions)

  1. (uncountable, philosophy) intuition (cognitive faculty)
  2. (countable) intuition, hunch
  3. premonition

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Swedish

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Noun

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intuition c

  1. intuition

Declension

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Declension of intuition 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative intuition intuitionen intuitioner intuitionerna
Genitive intuitions intuitionens intuitioners intuitionernas
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