Intuitive vs Intelligent - What's the difference?
intuitive | intelligent |
Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
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Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
Having a marked degree of intuition.
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
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Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
Having the same level of brain power as mankind.
Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
As adjectives the difference between intuitive and intelligent
is that intuitive is spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought while intelligent is of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.As a noun intuitive
is one who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.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 * counterintuitiveintelligent
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Alternative forms
* entelligentAdjective
(en-adj)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
