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Intuition vs Subconscious - What's the difference?

intuition | subconscious |

As nouns the difference between intuition and subconscious

is that intuition is (pedantic) while subconscious is that part of the mind that is not consciously perceived; one's innermost thoughts.

As an adjective subconscious is

partially conscious.

intuition

English

(wikipedia 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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    subconscious

    English

    (wikipedia subconscious)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • partially conscious.
  • below the level of consciousness.
    • The sense of smell can be a subconscious influence on our actions.

    Noun

  • that part of the mind that is not consciously perceived; one's innermost thoughts
    • A person can sometimes wake up knowing the solution to a problem that their subconscious has been working on.

    Synonyms

    * subconsciousness * subconscious mind