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Intuitive vs Presentative - What's the difference?

intuitive | presentative |

As adjectives the difference between intuitive and presentative

is that intuitive is spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought while presentative is capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.

As a noun intuitive

is one who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.

intuitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= 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.}}
  • * 2013 February 16, Laurie Goodstein, “ 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.
  • Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
    • Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
  • Having a marked degree of intuition.

    • Antonyms

    * non-intuitive * counterintuitive

    Related terms

    * intuition * intuit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
    • ----

    presentative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.
  • (ecclesiastical, legal) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution.
  • * Blackstone
    • Advowsons are presentative , collative, or donative.
  • Admitting the presentation of a clergyman.
  • * Spelman
    • a presentative parsonage
    (Webster 1913)