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Sociable vs Intuitive - What's the difference?

sociable | intuitive |

As adjectives the difference between sociable and intuitive

is that sociable is tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial while intuitive is spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.

As a noun intuitive is

one who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.

sociable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
  • He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Society is no comfort to one not sociable .
  • Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.
  • a sociable party
  • (archaic) Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.
  • * Hooker
  • They are sociable parts united into one body.
  • (obsolete) No longer hostile; friendly.
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Antonyms

    * unsociable ----

    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

    Noun

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