Synonyms of intuitions

intuitions

noun

plural of intuition

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.

Related Words

• instincts
• insights
• feels
• foresights
• anticipations
• suspicions
• perceptions
• discernments
• presciences
• foreknowledges
• sixth senses
• impressions
• premonitions
• presentiments
• forebodings
• prognostications
• presages

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of intuitions

Gradually doors opened, and angels (divine intuitions) guided me to next steps. — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2026

But the legal system’s binary standard—sane and guilty, or insane and not—fits imperfectly with human intuitions about culpability in tragedies like the Clancys’. — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 30 July 2026

Avila Chevalier represents something different, an academic leftism rigid in its refusal to accept trade-offs or make concessions to ordinary people’s moral intuitions. — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 June 2026

Something emerges unexpectedly, like a magma of visions and intuitions. — Natalie Stoclet, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026

His tenure has seen the state fall hard for faddish progressive policies on immigration, education, and crime that either didn’t work, violated the intuitions of most Americans, or both. — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026

In the decades that followed, researchers such as Susan Fiske and Dacher Keltner started testing these intuitions in a rigorous and scientific fashion. — Caleb Pomeroy, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2025

There are instincts or intuitions that arise for me that prove to be quite practical and useful. — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025

His approach centers around a radical openness to abandoning intuitions about how the world works. — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025