(a.) Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.
(a.) Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.
(a.) Received. reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to deductive.
Example Sentences:
(1) The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners.
(2) …" Platt: "Everything was intuitive, the way I met and hit the ball and then dropping to my knees.
(3) Intuitively, weight lost should be determined by the difference between the total energy consumed and the total energy expended.
(4) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
(5) What's more, she said several times, her intuition told her she was on the right path.
(6) Scale items that differed from the raters' intuition tended to be omitted more than others.
(7) In the process, however, we forgot about Huxley's intuition.
(8) The analysis of the relation of time and speed led Piaget to conclude that the time-speed confusion characterizing the intuitive stage undergoes development.
(9) Humanism is centred upon the agency of human individuality and subjective intuition, rather than on received ideas and authority.
(10) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
(11) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(12) A phenomenological approach permits to confirm the intuition of language in showing that the living experience of anguish is different from the one of anxiety.
(13) This controversy should be resolved in the light of fact, not intuition.
(14) The idea that huge, intractable social issues such as sexism and racism could be affected in such simple ways had a powerful intuitive appeal, and hinted at the possibility of equally simple, elegant solutions.
(15) It prevents him from attending to the slight promptings of his subconscious, and when these emotions and intuitions are not amplified by being brought into focus, he loses a sense of himself.
(16) Then it happened again … and again … and then we realised it was worldwide and curiously, and counter-intuitively, we calmed down.
(17) On intuitive grounds, many have felt that Hamilton's Rule, br greater than c, should describe the evolution of reciprocal altruism and "green beard" genes.
(18) If this ability has been considered only as an artful and intuitive process neither subjected to theoretical analysis nor to be captured in a formal quantitative model, now things have changed to such an extent that it becomes broadly shared that a science of medical decision making can be reasonably founded and this threefold: 1) Upon a formulated logic, 2) The probability theory, and 3) A value theory.
(19) (3) Intuitive judgments can be categorized by several, distinctive propositional beliefs from which the judgments are apparently derived.
(20) Decisions concerning the indications for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions must not be made by intuition but by professionally balancing the influencing factors such as psycho-social variables or marked deficits in mental, motor or sensory areas of the child's development.
Nuance
Definition:
(n.) A shade of difference; a delicate gradation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
(2) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(3) But he thinks the issue of parenting is more nuanced than the government has portrayed it.
(4) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(5) There is a degree of solidarity, but is has to be nuanced because even within families, you have this sense of jealousy, and the levelling concept.
(6) He is the one who had to transmit exactly what I had said to the referee and there are intricacies and nuance in the language where you have “Por qué” and “Porque”, and you have the word “negro” as it is used in the Spanish language and how it can be used in English.
(7) Today, we have come to a broader and more nuanced understanding of this age-old imperative: how to better balance the development needs of a growing world population – so all may enjoy the fruits of prosperity and robust economic growth – with the necessity of conserving our planet's most precious resources: land, air and water.
(8) That’s the danger of replacing the political discourse with a purely moralistic approach: politics allow for nuances and mistakes; morality doesn’t.
(9) When Abbott won the Lodge and confirmed he lacked the nuance to lead, Turnbull found a way to be part of the team while sending the signal to the public that things would be very different if only their wishes were fulfilled and it was he who had the top job.
(10) The success of Capote paved the way for bigger and more nuanced parts for Hoffman, his turn as the villain in Mission: Impossible III (2006) notwithstanding.
(11) Perhaps you must actually live in eastern Europe to appreciate the nuances.
(12) Important nuances of the operative technique as well as pre- and postoperative management are described.
(13) From time to time a more nuanced English voice could be heard in the debate.
(14) First, the issue of submissions, as with similar questions about gender and salary negotiations or gender and career management, is nuanced, complicated and as mediated by gendered expectations and behavior as anything else.
(15) Voters looking for further nuance might have been left a little underwhelmed, not least by the expectation that world-famous analytic philosophers tend not to rely on anything as touchy feely as intuition.
(16) The distinction of fine diagnostic nuances is quite helpful but requires well integrated epileptological and EEG experience.
(17) Investors are intensely focused on monetary policy worldwide, reacting dramatically to any nuance, and another bout of volatile trading is the last thing European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi needs.
(18) There is more scope for debate on Labour’s position on membership of the European Union and Nato, with Corbyn initially sounding sceptical about both but adopting a more nuanced position over the course of the leadership campaign.
(19) Because few individuals in the primary care practice of pediatrics have many patients with lead poisoning, it may be difficult to understand the nuances of management.
(20) But Clinton sought to distance herself from the populism of her two rivals, seeking to portray herself as a more nuanced but practical politician who was willing to see complexity where they saw simplicity.