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Initiative vs Intuitive - What's the difference?

initiative | intuitive |

As nouns the difference between initiative and intuitive

is that initiative is a beginning; a first move while intuitive is one who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.

As adjectives the difference between initiative and intuitive

is that initiative is serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary while intuitive is spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.

initiative

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A beginning; a first move.
  • A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
  • The ability to act first or on one's own.
  • An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
  • Synonyms

    * (issue to be voted on) direct initiative

    Derived terms

    * direct initiative

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
  • In which voter s can be brought to the ballot.
  • * John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy and the Executive Branch", in, 2008, Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, editors, Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions , , ISBN 9780230604452, page 122 [http://books.google.com/books?id=J6swcucKdNIC&pg=PA122&dq=initiative]:
  • The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.

    Antonyms

    * noninitiative

    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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