gut feeling

English

Alternative forms

• gut feel

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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.

   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 0362-4331:

     “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.

Related terms

• gut instinct
• gut reaction

Translations

an instinct or intuition

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: intuïció (ca) f, pressentiment (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: mavefornemmelse 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

See also

• go with one's gut