intuition
/ˌɪn.tuˈɪʃ.ən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.54 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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 standardised 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. [...]"
Etymology
From Middle French intuition, from Medieval Latin intuitiō (“a looking at, immediate cognition”), from Latin intueor (“to look at, consider”), from in- (“in, on”) + tueor (“to look, watch, guard, see, observe”). Equivalent to intuit + -ion.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɪn.tuˈɪʃ.ən/
- British English: /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/