Intuitive vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?
intuitive | ingenuity |
Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
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Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
Having a marked degree of intuition.
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 intuitive and ingenuity
is that intuitive is one who has (especially parapsychological) intuition while ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.As an adjective intuitive
is spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.intuitive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.}}
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.
- Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
Antonyms
* non-intuitive * counterintuitiveingenuity
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.
