intuition

• intuïtion

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, /-t͡ʃuː-/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.tuˈɪʃ.ən/

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• Hyphenation: in‧tu‧ition

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 standardised 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.

• “intuition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “intuition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

intuition c (singular definite intuitionen, plural indefinite intuitioner)

1. intuition

• intuere
• intuitiv

• “intuition” in Den Danske Ordbog

intuition

1. genitive singular of intuitio

• innoittui

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intuītiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɥi.sjɔ̃/

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intuition f (plural intuitions)

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

• intuitionner
• intuitionnel

• intuitif

• “intuition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

intuition c

1. intuition

• intuitiv

• intuition in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• intuition in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• intuition in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)