intuition

See also: Intuition and intuïtion

English

Alternative forms

• intuïtion

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, /-tʃuː-/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪn.tuˈɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: in‧tu‧ition

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• Gettier intuition
• intuit
• intuitional
• intuitionism
• intuitionist
• intuitionistic
• intuition line
• intuition pump
• intuitive
• line of intuition

 

Translations

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, unmittelbare (de) Erkenntnis (de) f
• Greek: διαίσθηση (el) f (diaísthisi), αισθητήριο (el) n (aisthitírio), ενόραση (el) f (enórasi)
• 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

• Arabic: حَدْس (ar) m (ḥads)
• Bulgarian: интуиция (bg) f (intuicija)
• Catalan: intuïció (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: intuition c
• Dutch: intuïtie (nl) f
• Finnish: intuitio (fi), vaisto (fi), aavistus (fi)
• French: intuition (fr) f
• Galician: intuición (gl) f
• German: Intuition (de) f
• Greek: διαίσθηση (el) f (diaísthisi)
• Indonesian: intuisi (id)
• Italian: intuizione (it) f
• Japanese: 直覚 (ja) (ちょっかく, chokkaku), 直感 (ja) (ちょっかん, chokkan)
• Korean: 직관 (jikgwan), 직감 (jikgam)
• Maori: pūmanawa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: intuisjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: intuisjon m

• Polish: intuicja (pl) f
• Portuguese: intuição (pt) f
• Romanian: intuiție (ro) f
• Russian: интуи́ция (ru) f (intuícija)
• Spanish: intuición (es) f
• Swedish: intuition (sv) c
• Ukrainian: інтуї́ція f (intujícija)

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.

Danish

Noun

intuition c (singular definite intuitionen, plural indefinite intuitioner)

1. intuition

Declension

Declension of intuition

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	intuition	intuitionen	intuitioner	intuitionerne
genitive	intuitions	intuitionens	intuitioners	intuitionernes

Related terms

• intuere
• intuitiv

References

• “intuition” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Noun

intuition

1. genitive singular of intuitio

Anagrams

• innoittui

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intuītiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɥi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

intuition f (plural intuitions)

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

Derived terms

• intuitionner
• intuitionnel

Related terms

• intuitif

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

intuition c

1. intuition

Declension

Declension of intuition

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	intuition	intuitions
	definite	intuitionen	intuitionens
plural	indefinite	intuitioner	intuitioners
	definite	intuitionerna	intuitionernas

Related terms

• intuitiv

References

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