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Intuition vs Alertness - What's the difference?

intuition | alertness |

As nouns the difference between intuition and alertness

is that intuition is (pedantic) while alertness is the quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

intuition

Alternative forms

* (pedantic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
  • *
  • 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. [...]
  • A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
  • Derived terms

    * intuitional * intuitionism * intuitionist * intuitionistic * intuitive * intuit

    References

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    alertness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.