to intuit
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7.5
- verb
- /ɪnˈtjuːɪt/
:
intuir
- She was able to intuit his feelings even without him saying anything.
I think he sort of intuited that information can't be lost.
- I think he sort of intuited that information can't be lost.
- It's only the form of sensuous intuition by which we can intuit things.
- I don't think, I don't feel, I don't intuit.
- And I would say that's still the way I tend to intuit it.
- So can you intuit why utopias fail as as systems?
- We reduce experiments, we reduce theory to something that we can intuit.
- Black people are supposed to jam and dance and have raggedy conversations where we intuit one another's feelings.
- And what is what is the day-to-day existence where you start to, you know, intuit these teachings and put them into practice?
- And I, I put this one in because we'd run into a lot of situations where people wouldn't intuit this.
- I kind of, I'm just kind of intuiting from something that your words inspire me to think, which is there's something special going on here right about now with us.
- I think we've tried in past years but has not, and the other one is more algorithmic but a little bit hard to intuit.
- Well, what I intuit from that is it's, it's a looser, it's, it's a cultural thing where it's just ingrained into the way people are living on a day-to-day basis.
- And I and I, I intuited big things for him.
- Knowing it and intuiting it, comprehending it.
- It's just hard to intuit a world where what does that even mean?
- Yeah, yes, but you can intuit stuff.
Examples
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Somehow they intuit that order and syntax are part of the relational, communal side of life.
Academic text (1994) -
And her ability to intuit this is a God-given gift.
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You must learn to intuit what is missing.
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You can intuit it, you can sense it.
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Let's see if we can intuit an answer, all right?
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If he could find that out, intuit it somehow, discern it, he might get an edge in the bidding.
Fiction book (1994) -
And I understand and intuit the nuances of social dynamics like you wouldn't believe.
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I kind of, I'm just kind of intuiting from something that your words inspire me to think, which is there's something special going on here right about now with us.
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Their findings indicated that those volunteers were extraverted and displayed a preference for intuiting over sensing.
Academic text (2001) -
Thus does every frequent flyer employ our species' peculiarly empathetic aptitude for intuiting the mental states and intentions of other people.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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1.0
To understand what something means
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1.1
To suddenly understand something you did not know before
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4.2
To notice something by feeling or by using a tool
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9.6
To notice and understand something in your mind
To notice something and connect it to past experiences
How Certain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Intuit is from the same root as intuition, coming from the old Latin verb intueri, which meant 'to look at' or 'consider'. So to intuit something is like 'seeing' an answer inside your mind without thinking step by step.