Intuition vs Phobia - What's the difference?
intuition | phobia |
Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
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A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular.
As nouns the difference between intuition and phobia
is that intuition is (pedantic) while phobia is an irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular.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
* * ----phobia
English
Noun
- I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders.