Meaning & use
Intuitions
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Instinctive feelings or immediate understandings of something without the need for conscious reasoning.
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Her intuitions about the suspect turned out to be correct.
Scientists sometimes rely on intuitions before they have hard data to support a theory.
A note on using this word
The plural of 'intuition,' often used in philosophy and psychology to discuss immediate, pre-rational judgments about right, wrong, or truth.
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