Mystical vs Intuitive - What's the difference?
mystical | intuitive |
Relating to mystics or mysticism.
Having a spiritual significance that transcends human understanding.
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, title=Behaviorism at 100
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Inspiring a sense of spiritual mystery, awe, and fascination.
Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
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, author=Steven Sloman
, title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation
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Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
Having a marked degree of intuition.
As adjectives the difference between mystical and intuitive
is that mystical is relating to mystics or mysticism while intuitive is spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.As a noun intuitive is
one who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.mystical
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Alternative forms
* mysticall (obsolete) * mystickal (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}
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*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.
