intuition

• intuïtion (pedantic)

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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪntuwˈɪʃɨn/

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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 730148564, 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 stand-
     ardised 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• intuition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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 intuītiō.

• 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.