Synonyms for intuition
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Synonyms by meaning
Noun
2. Understanding
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
- n. 2
A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
Related words
- Word family
- intuitive
- Other spellings
- intuïtion
Forms
- Plural
- intuitions → hunches, suspicions, understandings, perceptions…
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Intuition is primary knowledge antecedent to all teaching or reasoning, experience is knowledge that has entered directly into one's own life; as, a child's experience that fire will burn.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- hunch Tom had a hunch that Mary was seeing someone else.
- understanding The mystery of life is beyond human understanding.
- perception Generous behavior reduces the perception of pain.
- instinct I've heard that most mammals can swim by instinct.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| intuition | rising | |
| hunch | rising | |
| understanding | rising | |
| perception | rising | |
| instinct | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- hunch1
- 6 letters
- belief2
- 7 letters
- insight2
- 8 letters
- instinct2
- 9 letters
- suspicion3
- 10 letters
- perception3
- 11 letters
- inspiration4
- 13 letters
- understanding4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (belief2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- intuition
- Italiano
- intuizione
- Español
- intuición
- Català
- intuïció