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intuitions

intuitions is the plural of intuition.

Meaning of intuition

Noun

intuition (countable and uncountable, plural intuitions)

  1. Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
    • The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of intuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions about sentence well-formedness, and (ii) intuitions about sentence structure. The word intuition is used here in a technical sense which has become...1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4
  2. A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

Phrases with intuitions

Questions about intuitions

What is intuitions the plural of?
Intuitions is the plural of intuition.

Words near intuitions in the dictionary

  1. intuitionistic logic
  2. intuitionistic logics
  3. intuitionistically
  4. intuitionists
  5. intuitionless
  6. intuitions
  7. intuitive
  8. intuitive eating
  9. intuitively
  10. intuitiveness
  11. intuitives

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