Astute vs Intuition - What's the difference?
astute | intuition |
quickly and critically discerning
shrewd or crafty
* 2014 , A teacher, "
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
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A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
As an adjective astute
is quickly and critically discerning.As a noun intuition is
immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.astute
English
Adjective
(er)Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", The Guardian , 23 September 2014:
- The best headteachers are like submarine captains – cool-headed, astute decision-makers – who trust their colleagues and surroundings to indicate where their ship is headed.
Synonyms
* crafty, shrewd, wilyDerived terms
* astutely * astutenessAnagrams
* ----intuition
English
(wikipedia intuition)Alternative forms
* (pedantic)Noun
(en noun)- 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 stand-
ardised 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. [...]
