Intuitive vs Inquisitive - What's the difference?
intuitive | inquisitive |
Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
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Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
Having a marked degree of intuition.
Eager to acquire knowledge.
* I. Watts
Too curious; overly interested; nosy.
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As adjectives the difference between intuitive and inquisitive
is that intuitive is spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought while inquisitive is eager to acquire knowledge.As a noun intuitive
is one who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.intuitive
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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 * counterintuitiveinquisitive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A young, inquisitive , and sprightly genius.
- A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent.
- Everybody gets their own ration of luck, they say. Now you mention it' his face was familiar to me. But, leaving that for the moment, how much did you part with, he queried, if I am not too ' inquisitive ?
