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Did you mayhaps mean one of these? sanitize, subsidize, subtile

Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive to judge (the number of objects in a group) rapidly, accurately and confidently without counting them
  2. v. intransitive to have the ability of judging the number of objects in a group in this way

Etymologies

  1. From Latin subitus ("sudden; unexpected") from the feeling of immediately knowing the number of items present. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Specifically, people and animals subitize, or perceive and estimate the number of objects by glance.”

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  • reesetee Take a subitizing test. May 11, 2011

  • Nayohaase To tell the number of items in a collection without counting them one by one. An ability of some idiot savants. Found the word in a book called "The number sense" Sep 20, 2009

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