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Suspicion vs Intuition - What's the difference?

suspicion | intuition |

As nouns the difference between suspicion and intuition

is that suspicion is (act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong)The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong while intuition is immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.

As a verb suspicion

is to suspect; to have suspicions.

suspicion

English

Alternative forms

* suspition (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
  • The condition of being suspected.
  • Uncertainty, doubt.
  • *
    • In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion .
  • A trace, or slight indication.
  • * (Adolphus William Ward) (1837-1924)
    • The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
  • The imagining of something without evidence.

    • Derived terms

    * suspicious * suspect * sneaking suspicion

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.
  • * (Rudyard Kipling)
    • Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned , for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home.
  • * 2012 , B. M. Bower, Cow-Country (page 195)
    • "I've been suspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.

    References

    * (EtymOnLine)

    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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