intuitionとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle French intuition, from Medieval Latin intuitio (“a looking at, immediate cognition”), from Latin intueri (“to look at, consider”), from in (“in, on”) + tueri (“to look, watch, guard, see, observe”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃən/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪntuwˈɪʃɨn/

名詞

intuition (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 intuitions)

1. Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 730148564, page 4:

     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. [...]

2. A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

派生語

参照

• intuition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• intuition in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.