Intuition vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?
intuition | ingenuity |
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
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A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.
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As nouns the difference between intuition and ingenuity
is that intuition is (pedantic) while ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.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. [...]
Derived terms
* intuitional * intuitionism * intuitionist * intuitionistic * intuitive * intuitReferences
* * ----ingenuity
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
- Poverty is the mother of ingenuity .
- Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.
- And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie , and ever to speake truth and what I think.