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Intuition vs. Intuitiveness — What's the Difference?

Intuition vs. Intuitiveness — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Intuition and Intuitiveness

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Intuition

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning. Different fields use the word "intuition" in very different ways, including but not limited to: direct access to unconscious knowledge; unconscious cognition; inner sensing; inner insight to unconscious pattern-recognition; and the ability to understand something instinctively, without any need for conscious reasoning.The word intuition comes from the Latin verb intueri translated as "consider" or from the late middle English word intuit, "to contemplate".

Intuitiveness

Of, relating to, or arising from intuition
"The greatest scientific thinkers are those who rely on sudden intuitive flashes to solve problems" (Andrew Weil).

Intuition

The ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning
We shall allow our intuition to guide us

Intuitiveness

Possessing or demonstrating intuition
An intuitive thinker.

Intuition

The faculty of knowing or understanding something without reasoning or proof.
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Intuitiveness

Easily understood and simple to use
A web browser with an intuitive interface.

Intuition

An impression or insight gained by the use of this faculty
"I had this intuition you would come here just after the rain broke" (Carson McCullers).

Intuitiveness

The state of being intuitive.

Intuition

Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.

Intuition

A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

Intuition

A looking after; a regard to.
What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains.

Intuition

Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; - distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.
Sagacity and a nameless something more, - let us call it intuition.

Intuition

Any object or truth discerned by intuition.

Intuition

Any quick insight, recognized immediately without a reasoning process; a belief arrived at unconsciously; - often it is based on extensive experience of a subject.

Intuition

The ability to have insight into a matter without conscious thought; as, his chemical intuition allowed him to predict compound conformations without any conscious calculation; a mother's intuition often tells her what is best for her child.

Intuition

Instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)

Intuition

An impression that something might be the case;
He had an intuition that something had gone wrong

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