intuit
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- transitive verb Usage Problem To know intuitively.
- usage note The use of intuit as a verb is well established in reputable writing, but some critics have objected to it. Only 34 percent of the Usage Panel accepts it in the sentence Claude often intuits my feelings about things long before I am really aware of them myself. This lack of acceptance is often attributed to the verb's status as a back-formation from intuition, but in fact the verb has existed as long as other back-formations, such as diagnose and donate, that are now wholly acceptable. The source of the objections most likely lies in the fact that the verb is often used in reference to more trivial sorts of insight than would be permitted by a full appreciation of the traditional meaning of intuition. In this connection, a greater percentage of the Panel, 46 percent, accepts intuit in the sentence Mathematicians sometimes intuit the truth of a theorem long before they are able to prove it. See Usage Note at enthuse.
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- Most women were convinced that datingan intuit was akin to trying to run through the starting defensive line of the Moscow Dynamo: a girl was simply outmatched before she could get started. — The Mocking Program
- "Next time I'm in dock, maybe I call on my goodcompadre Cardenasthe intuit, and they cut me a crease, you know so?" — The Mocking Program
- Or are we going to go into town and get some dinner? " — Dragons of Autumn Twilight
- Though it is beginning to look as if his way of doing things may be the only answer right now. "in truth, the reason he was here instead of at the ekele was that Firesong had not been able to" intuit "an answer either, and was rather short-tempered as a result. — Storm Rising
- "Beingan intuit, you already know that." — The Mocking Program
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- Back-formation from intuition.
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/ (ĭn-to͞oˈĭt, -tyo͞oˈ-)/
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