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Inbred vs Intuitive - What's the difference?

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Inbred is a related term of intuitive.


As adjectives the difference between inbred and intuitive

is that inbred is bred within; innate; as, inbred worth while intuitive is spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.

As nouns the difference between inbred and intuitive

is that inbred is (vulgar) an inbred individual while intuitive is one who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.

As a verb inbred

is (inbreed).

inbred

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.
  • (often pejorative) having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding
  • (genetics) describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (inbreed)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar) An inbred individual
    • Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds .

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    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

    Related terms

    * intuition * intuit

    Noun

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