intuition

See also: Intuition

English

Alternative forms

• intuïtion (pedantic)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French (deprecated template usage) intuition, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  (deprecated template usage) intuitio, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) intueri, from (deprecated template usage) in + (deprecated template usage) tueri.

Pronunciation

• (UK) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃən/
• (US) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪntuwˈɪʃɨn/
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Noun

intuition (plural intuitions)

1. Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.

   • 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.

Derived terms

• intuitional
• intuitionism
• intuitionist
• intuitionistic
• intuitive
• intuit

Translations

immediate cognition without the use of rational processes

• Armenian: ինտուիցիոնիզմ (intuicʻionizm)
• Bulgarian: предчувствие (bg) n (predchúvstvie)
• Catalan: intuïció f
• Czech: intuice (cs) f
• Dutch: intuïtie (nl) f
• Finnish: intuitio (fi), vaisto
• French: intuition (fr) f
• German: Ahnung (de) f, Anschauung (de) f, Eingebung (de) f, Einfühlungsvermögen (de) n, Gespür (de) n, unmittelbare (de) Erkenntnis (de) f
• Greek: διαίσθηση (el) f (diaísthisi), αισθητήριο (el) n (aisthitírio), ενόραση (el) f (enórasi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: gerak hati, intuisi (id)
• Italian: intuito (it) m
• Khmer: អព្ភន្តរញាណ (km) (appʰoandɑɑ ɲien)
• Macedonian: претчувство n (prétčuvstvo), интуиција f (intuícija)
• Malay: gerak hati, intuisi
• Maori: pūmanawa
• Portuguese: intuição (pt) f
• Russian: предчу́вствие (ru) n (predčúvstvije), интуи́ция (ru) f (intuícija)
• Serbian: predosećaj m, domišljaj m
• Spanish: intuición (es) f
• Swedish: intuition (sv) c
• Turkish: görü (tr), sezgi (tr)

perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty

• Catalan: intuïció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直覺／直觉 (zhíjué), 直觉 (zh) (zhíjué), 直感 (zh) (zhígǎn)

• Dutch: intuïtie (nl) f
• Finnish: intuitio (fi), vaisto, aavistus (fi)
• French: intuition (fr) f
• German: Intuition (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: διαίσθηση (el) f (diaísthisi)
• Italian: intuizione (it) f
• Japanese: 直覚 (ちょっかく, chokkaku), 直感 (ja) (ちょっかん, chokkan)
• Maori: pūmanawa
• Portuguese: intuição (pt) f
• Russian: интуи́ция (ru) f (intuícija)
• Spanish: intuición (es) f

References

• “intuition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “intuition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Finnish

Noun

intuition

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of intuitio

Anagrams

• innoittui

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French

Noun

intuition f (plural intuitions)

1. intuition, hunch
2. premonition