as in instincts
an innate sense of what is true or what will happen
Although the child looked fine, the parents' intuition told them something was wrong.
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Recent Examples of intuitions
The author Annaka Harris makes the case for why our common intuitions about consciousness are all wrong.
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Stephen Johnson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Religious intuitions about dignity, responsibility, and limits remain ones that most humanity actively references.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
The result defies mathematicians’ usual intuitions about what functions can and cannot do.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2025
Stephen Johnson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Religious intuitions about dignity, responsibility, and limits remain ones that most humanity actively references.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
The result defies mathematicians’ usual intuitions about what functions can and cannot do.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intuitions
instincts
Noun
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Tug-of-war also channels a dog’s natural instincts of capturing prey, keeping them engaged.—
Kelsey Monstrola,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Now he is left wondering if his protective instincts went too far.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Intuitions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intuitions. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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