Intuition Meaning
/ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounImmediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
nounA perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
Sentence Examples
Woman's intuition is clearly a valuable trait.
By intuition he knew she was lying.
We put too much faith in our intuition.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Her strong ____ told her not to trust the stranger's kind offer.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Her ____ told her that something was wrong, even though everyone else seemed to be perfectly happy.
Word Origin & History
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”). Equivalent to intuit + -ion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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. [...]"
— 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Her strong ____ told her not to trust the stranger's kind offer.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Her ____ told her that something was wrong, even though everyone else seemed to be perfectly happy.