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Shrewdness vs Intuition - What's the difference?

shrewdness | intuition |

As nouns the difference between shrewdness and intuition

is that shrewdness is the quality of being shrewd while intuition is (pedantic).

shrewdness

English

Noun

(shrewdnesses)
  • The quality of being shrewd.
  • An invented collective name for a group of apes.

    • intuition

    English

    (wikipedia intuition)

    Alternative forms

    * (pedantic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
  • *
    • The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of
    intuition'' which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions'''
    about sentence ''well-formedness'', and (ii) '''intuitions     about sentence ''structure''.
    The word ''intuition'' is used here in a technical sense which has become stand-
    ardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has ''intuitions'' about the
    well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the
    ability to make ''judgments     about whether a given sentence is well-formed or
    not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]
  • A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

    • Derived terms

    * intuitional * intuitionism * intuitionist * intuitionistic * intuitive * intuit

    References

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