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They were perfect partners--one highly intuitive and the other highly analytical.intuitive = able to understand things from feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning
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Experience has taught me that I can trust my intuition about friendships.intuition = things known instinctively rather than through reasoning
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Intuitively, I knew not to trust her.intuitively = instinctively
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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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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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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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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 reasoningstandard 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 was just trying to look at intuitive judgment processes. (source)intuitive = known instinctively rather than through 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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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)intuitiveness = the ability to understand things instinctively rather than through reasoningstandard 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)unintuitive = not known instinctivelystandard 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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She knew she hadn't really known him long enough to make that kind of judgment, but she couldn't deny her intuition. (source)intuition = something believed based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning
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He was bright, intuitive. (source)intuitive = knew things instinctively rather than through reasoning
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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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Whatever these intuitions were, I was beginning to respect them.† (source)
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