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Analytic vs Intuitive - What's the difference?

analytic | intuitive |

As adjectives the difference between analytic and intuitive

is that analytic is of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics while intuitive is spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.

As a noun intuitive is

one who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.

analytic

English

Alternative forms

* analytick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics
  • of, or relating to division into elements or principles
  • having the ability to analyse
  • (logic) (of a proposition ) that follows necessarily; tautologous
  • (mathematics) of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis
  • (analysis) being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives
  • (linguistics) using multiple simple words, instead of inflection
  • Antonyms

    * (linguistic) synthetic * (logical) contingent

    Derived terms

    () * analyticism * analyticity * analytic capacity * analytic combinatorics * analytic continuation * analytic cubism * analytic element method * analytic frame * analytic function * analytic geometry * analytic hierarchy * analytic induction * analytic language * analytic manifold * analytic number theory * analytic philosophy * analytic proof * analytic proposition * analytic psychology * analytic set * analytic signal * analytic solution * analytic variety * hyperanalytic * psychoanalytic

    intuitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
  • * 2013 February 16, Laurie Goodstein, “ Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope”, NYTimes.com :
  • These impressions [of potential papal candidates], collected from interviews with a variety of church officials and experts, may influence the very intuitive , often unpredictable process the cardinals will use to decide who should lead the world’s largest church.
    The intuitive response turned out to be correct.
  • Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
  • Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
  • Having a marked degree of intuition.
  • Antonyms

    * non-intuitive * counterintuitive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
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