Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

counterintuition

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
coun-ter-in-tu-ition
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something counterintuitive.

Countable

noun

intuition that is contrary to what one would expect

Uncountable

Etymology

From counter- + intuition.

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What does counterintuition mean?
Something counterintuitive.
Where does counterintuition come from?
From counter- + intuition.

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