intuition

IPA(Pronunciation)

Noun

countable uncountable

Japanese Meaning

意識的な合理的プロセスを用いずに、瞬時に得られる認識、いわゆる直感 / この能力を利用して得られる鋭敏な洞察、直感的な理解

Her intuition told her to avoid the dark alley, so she chose a different route.

彼女の直感が暗い路地を避けるよう告げたので、彼女は別の道を選んだ。

Sense（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 stand-

ardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has intuitions about the

well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the

ability to make judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or

not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. …

Sense（2）

A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

intuitions

（ plural ）