FromMiddle French intuition , fromMedieval Latin intuitiō ( “ a looking at, immediate cognition ” ) , fromLatin intueor ( “ to look at, consider ” ) , fromin- ( “ in, on ” ) +tueor ( “ to look, watch, guard, see, observe ” ) . Equivalent tointuit +-ion .
intuition (countable anduncountable ,plural intuitions )
Immediatecognition without the use ofconscious 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 ofintuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i)intuitions about sentencewell-formedness , and (ii)intuitions about sentencestructure . The wordintuition is used here in a technical sense which has become standardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker hasintuitions about the well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the ability to makejudgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]
Aperceptive insight gained by the use of thisfaculty . immediate cognition without the use of rational processes
Arabic:حَدْس (ar) m ( ḥads ) Armenian:ինտուիցիա (hy) ( intuicʻia ) ,( rare ) ներըմբռնում (hy) ( nerəmbṙnum ) Asturian:intuición f Belarusian:інтуі́цыя f ( intuícyja ) Bulgarian:предчу́вствие (bg) n ( predčúvstvie ) ,интуиция (bg) f ( intuicija ) Catalan:intuïció (ca) f Czech:intuice (cs) f Danish:intuition c Dutch:intuïtie (nl) f Finnish:intuitio (fi) ,vaisto (fi) French:intuition (fr) f Galician:intuición (gl) f German:Ahnung (de) f ,Anschauung (de) f ,Eingebung (de) f ,Einfühlungsvermögen (de) n ,Gespür (de) n , unmittelbareErkenntnis (de) f Greek:διαίσθηση (el) f ( diaísthisi ) ,αισθητήριο (el) n ( aisthitírio ) ,ενόραση (el) f ( enórasi ) Hindi:सहजबोध m ( sahajbodh ) Hungarian:intuíció (hu) Indonesian:gerak hati ,intuisi (id) Italian:intuito (it) m Kazakh:интуиция ( intuisiä ) ,түйсік ( tüisık ) Khmer:អព្ភន្តរញាណ (km) ( appʰoandɑɑ ɲien ) Latvian:intuīcija f Lithuanian:intuicija f Macedonian:пре́тчувство n ( prétčuvstvo ) ,интуи́ција f ( intuícija ) Malay:gerak hati ,intuisi Maori:pūmanawa ,rongo ā-manawa Norwegian:Bokmål:intuisjon (no) m Nynorsk:intuisjon m Persian:شهود (fa) ( šohud ) Polish:intuicja (pl) f Portuguese:intuição (pt) f Romanian:intuiție (ro) f Russian:предчу́вствие (ru) n ( predčúvstvije ) ,интуи́ция (ru) f ( intuícija ) Serbo-Croatian:predosećaj m ,domišljaj (sh) m ,intuicija (sh) f Spanish:intuición (es) f Swedish:intuition (sv) c Thai:อัชฌัตติกญาณ (th) Turkish:görü (tr) ,sezgi (tr) ,entüisyon Ukrainian:інтуї́ція f ( intujícija ) Vietnamese:trực giác (vi)
perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty
“intuition ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC . William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “intuition ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] , New York, N.Y.:The Century Co. ,→OCLC .intuition c (singular definite intuitionen ,plural indefinite intuitioner )
intuition intuition
genitive singular ofintuitio Borrowed fromMedieval Latin intuītiōnem .
intuition f (plural intuitions )
( uncountable , philosophy ) intuition ( cognitive faculty ) ( countable ) intuition ,hunch premonition intuition c
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