Sample Sentences for
intuition
(editor-reviewed)

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    Now his intuition was that he had been right in coming.  (source)
    intuition = something believed based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning
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    She was far more intuitive than I. Her gift for understanding people much greater.  (source)
    intuitive = characterized by basing decisions on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning
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    You are intuitively right, that's what counts.  (source)
    intuitively = known without the need to teach, analyze, or think through
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    Oh, he'd managed to get good marks all right ..., but he didn't have one speck of intuition.  (source)
    intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I am married to a woman blessed with far more intuitive kindness than I.  (source)
    intuitive = natural (known without the need to teach)
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    Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.  (source)
    Intuitively = instinctively (known without having been taught or having needed to determine with logical reasoning)
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    I've always trusted my intuitions; they've saved my life more than once.†  (source)
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    Theater-going was forbidden in our house, but, with the really cruel intuitiveness of a child, I suspected that the color of this woman's skin would carry the day for me.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Excessive rationality about sex leads to duty and guilt and to unintuitive sex.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintuitive means not and reverses the meaning of intuitive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I still think there is something known as "intuition" and "human judgment."  (source)
    intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning
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    All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean—from that whole vast intuitive culture—are...  (source)
    intuitive = having instinctive knowledge rather than knowledge through learning and reasoning
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    We sense its intention intuitively.  (source)
    intuitively = instinctively (rather than through reasoning or being told)
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    Whatever these intuitions were, I was beginning to respect them.†  (source)
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