intuition

名词 n.
/ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/|/-t͡ʃuː-/    /ˌɪn.tuˈɪʃ.ən/|/ˌɪn.tjuˈɪʃ.ən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes. countable,uncountable
    — 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. [...]
  2. A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty. countable,uncountable

词形变化

intuitions plural intuïtion alternative

词源

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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