Synonyms for intuition
ˌɪn tuˈɪʃ ən, -tyu-in·tu·ition

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1. intuition

   Knowledge is all that the mind knows, from whatever source derived or obtained, or by whatever process; the aggregate of facts, truths, or principles acquired or retained by the mind, including alike the intuitions native to the mind and all that has been learned respecting phenomena, causes, laws, principles, literature, etc. There is a tendency to regard knowledge as accurate and systematic, and to a certain degree complete. Information is knowledge of fact, real or supposed, derived from persons, books, or observation, and is regarded as casual and haphazard. We say of a studious man that he has a great store of knowledge, or of an intelligent man of the world, that he has a fund of varied information. Lore is used only in poetic or elevated style, for accumulated knowledge, as of a people or age, or in a more limited sense for learning or erudition. We speak of perception of external objects, apprehension of intellectual truth. Simple perception gives a limited knowledge of external objects, merely as such; the cognition of the same objects is a knowledge of them in some relation; cognizance is the formal or official recognition of something as an object of knowledge; we take cognizance of it. Intuition is primary knowledge antecedent to all teaching or reasoning, experience is knowledge that has entered directly into one's own life; as, a child's experience that fire will burn. Learning is much higher than information, being preeminently wide and systematic knowledge, the result of long, assiduous study; erudition is recondite learning secured only by extraordinary industry, opportunity, and ability. Compare ACQUAINTANCE; EDUCATION; SCIENCE; WISDOM.

   Synonyms:
   acquaintance, apprehension, cognition, cognizance, comprehension, erudition, experience, information, intelligence, knowledge, learning, light, lore, perception, recognition, scholarship, science, wisdom

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, illiteracy, inexperience, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, rudeness, unfamiliarity

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1. intuition

   Synonyms:
   instinct, apprehension, recognition, insight

   Antonyms:
   information, learning, instruction, elaboration, acquirement, induction, experience

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1. intuitionnoun

   instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)

   Synonyms:
   hunch, suspicion

2. intuition, hunch, suspicionnoun

   an impression that something might be the case

   "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"

   Synonyms:
   suspiciousness, hunch, suspicion, distrust, mistrust, misgiving

Matched Categories

1. • Basic Cognitive Process

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1. intuitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   immediate perception (by the intellect), immediate knowledge, instinctive knowledge, direct cognition, apprehension at first sight

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1. List of paraphrases for "intuition":

   hunch, instinct, insight, gut

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1. Alan Alda:

   The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

2. Director John Crowley:

   The good thing about filmmaking is that it's such a crazy, busy job that pretty soon you get too busy to even think about those things, you're trying make decisions based on your intuition and to try and be true to your own sense of what was special about the story when you read it.

3. Henry Louis Mencken:

   A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

4. Though Brown:

   Now, jokingly, I ’m like, ‘ There’s got to be some intuition inside of you that you must know, ’ but I was like, ‘ I just feel off in running, so I just want to rule out all of the possibilities, ’.

5. David Meyre:

   My intuition was correct.