Aware vs Intuitive - What's the difference?
aware | intuitive |
Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
Conscious or having knowledge of something.
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Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
Having a marked degree of intuition.
As nouns the difference between aware and intuitive
is that aware is avar while intuitive is one who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.As an adjective intuitive is
spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.aware
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware , is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
Synonyms
* (sense, on one's guard) wary, watchful, sensitive, alert, attentive, observant * (conscious of something) apprised, informed, cognizant, conscious, mindfulAntonyms
* unawareDerived terms
* awareness * unawareintuitive
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Adjective
(en adjective)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.}}
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.
- Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.