intuición

See also: intuicion

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Latin tueor

Latin intueor

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Late Latin intuitiōnemlbor.

Spanish intuición

Learned borrowing from Late Latin intuitiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intwiˈθjon/ [ĩn̪.t̪wiˈθjõn] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /intwiˈsjon/ [ĩn̪.t̪wiˈsjõn] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: in‧tui‧ción

Noun

intuición f (plural intuiciones)

1. intuition
2. intuitiveness

Derived terms

• intuitivo

Related terms

• intuir

Further reading

• “intuición”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025