| word | intuition |
|---|---|
| definition | (1) The power of knowing something immediately without mental effort; quick insight. (2) Something known in this way. |
| eg_sentence | She scoffed at the notion of “women's intuition,” special powers of insight and understanding in personal relations that women are supposed to have. |
| explanation | Intuition is very close in meaning to instinct. The moment a man enters a room you may feel you know intuitively or instinctively everything about him—that is, you may intuit his basic personality. Highly rational people may try to ignore their intuition and insist on being able to explain everything they think, but artists and creative thinkers often tend to rely on their intuitive sense of things. Intuition can be closely related to their imagination, which seems to come from somewhere just as mysterious. Some psychologists claim that the left brain is mainly involved in logical thinking and the right brain in intuitive thinking; but the brain is terribly complex, and even if there's some truth to this idea, it's not terribly obvious how to make use of it. |
| IPA | ˌɪntuˈɪʃən |
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