MEANING
1. Based on immediate understanding or feeling rather than explicit reasoning or demonstrated evidence.
2. Easy to understand, learn, or use without special instruction.
Use it for
qualifying an argument that feels plausible but lacks proof; describing a judgment reached without conscious analysis; contrasting immediate impressions with systematic evaluationDistinguishes an immediate impression from demonstrated reasoning and separately describes ease of use. Academic functions: Qualification / Uncertainty, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- intuitive judgment
- intuitive understanding
- intuitive appeal
On the page
The explanation has intuitive appeal, but the observed association does not establish its proposed mechanism.
The psychologist compares intuitive judgments with decisions made after participants examine the evidence.
The survey software is intuitive to use, although its default categories still require methodological scrutiny.
An intuitive diagram can communicate the argument while concealing assumptions that the text must explain.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- intuitive
Usage notes
Adjective: intuitive judgment, intuitive interface. More intuitive and most intuitive are natural for ease of use; specify the comparison. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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