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intuitional |
intuitionalism |
intuitionalist |
intuitionism |
intuitionist |
intuitive
| intuitive feeling
| intuitively
| intuitivism
| intumesce
| intumescence
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intuitive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective intuitive has 2 senses
- intuitive(s = adj.all) Array - spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency; "an intuitive revulsion"
- intuitive(s = adj.all) nonrational, visceral - obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation; Array Derived form verb intuit1
CIDE DICTIONARY
intuitive, a. [Cf. F. intuitif.].
- Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision. [1913 Webster]
- Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning. [1913 Webster]"Whence the soul
Reason receives, and reason is her being,
Discursive, or intuitive." [1913 Webster] - Received, reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to
deductive . Locke. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
intuitive, adj.
1 of, characterized by, or possessing intuition.
2 perceived by intuition.
1 of, characterized by, or possessing intuition.
2 perceived by intuition.
Derivative
intuitively adv. intuitiveness n.
Etymology
med.L intuitivus (as INTUIT)
THESAURUS
intuitive
anticipant, anticipatory, augural, clairvoyant, direct, divinatory, farseeing, farsighted, feeling, forehanded, foreknowing, forerunning, foreseeing, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, foretokening, forewarning, heavy with meaning, immediate, indicative, instinctual, intuitional, longsighted, meaningful, monitory, precognitive, precognizant, precursive, precursory, predictive, prefigurative, preindicative, premonitory, prepared, presageful, presaging, prescient, prognostic, prognosticative, provident, providential, prudent, ready, sagacious, second-sighted, sensing, significant, visceral, warningROGET THESAURUS
intuitive
& Sophistry
N intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling, presentiment, premonition, rule of thumb, superstition, astrology, faith (supposition), sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion, chicane, chicanery, quiddet, quiddity, mystification, special pleading, speciousness, nonsense, word sense, tongue sense, false reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning, petitio principii, ignoratio elenchi, post hoc ergo propter hoc, non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius, misjudgment, false teaching, sophism, solecism, paralogism, quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet, inconsistency, antilogy, a delusion, a mockery, and a snare, claptrap, cant, mere words, lame and impotent conclusion, meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry, flaw in an argument, weak point, bad case, overrefinement, hairsplitting, intuitive, instinctive, impulsive, independent of reason, anterior to reason, gratuitous, hazarded, unconnected, unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid, unwarranted, not following, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, absonous, absonant, unscientific, untenable, inconclusive, incorrect, fallacious, fallible, groundless, unproved, non sequitur, it does not follow, deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical, illusive, illusory, specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum, evasive, irrelevant, weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague, irrational, nonsensical, foolish, frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling, finespun, overrefined, at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin, intuitively, by intuition, illogically, non constat, that goes for nothing.
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