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based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoningor:
easy to understand without training or study
- The were perfect partners—one highly intuitive and the other highly analytical.
intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
- Intuitively, I knew not to trust her.
- Experience has taught me that I can trust my intuition about friendships.
- During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.Fritjof Capra
- She was far more intuitive than I. Her gift for understanding people much greater.Alice Walker -- The Color Purple
- She knew she hadn't really known him long enough to make that kind of judgment, but she couldn't deny her intuition.Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
- When we are honest with children, we also validate their intuition.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
- He learned to decipher the meaning of certain silences, which is like solving a tough case without any clues, with only intuition.Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love
- And I did tell you to follow your intuition, didn't I?P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
- Oh, he'd managed to get good marks all right ..., but he didn't have one speck of intuition.Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
- I am married to a woman blessed with far more intuitive kindness than I.Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie
- He was bright, intuitive.Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
- The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life,Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist
- Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.Junot Diaz -- Drown
- But never ignore your intuition, either.Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
- I still think there is something known as "intuition" and "human judgment."Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- But what is often called an intuition is really impression based on logical deduction or experience.Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- The intuitive voice inside me that had become familiar was screaming.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
- Hoping for an intuition to guide me.Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
- All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean—from that whole vast intuitive culture—are...Peter Shaffer -- Equus
intuitively = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
(editor's note: 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.)
intuitive = characterized by basing decisions on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning
intuition = something believed based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning
(editor's note: 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.)
intuition = ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning
(editor's note: 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.)
intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning
(editor's note: 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.)
intuition = feelings or instincts rather than conscious reasoning
(editor's note: 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.)
intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning
(editor's note: 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.)
intuitive = natural (known without the need to teach)
intuitive = knew things instinctively rather than through reasoning
intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning
(editor's note: 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.)
intuitively = instinctively (known without having been taught or having needed to determine with logical reasoning)
intuition = things known instinctively rather than through reasoning
(editor's note: 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.)
intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning
(editor's note: 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.)
intuition = knowing something instinctively rather than through reasoning
(editor's note: 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.)
intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
intuition = instinctive knowledge (not known through conscious reasoning)
(editor's note: 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.)
intuitive = having instinctive knowledge rather than knowledge through learning and reasoning
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