Definition of inititive
1. intuitive [ a ] spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
Examples:
"an intuitive revulsion"
(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)
Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta , as every artist delights to do , wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and - especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair - into the relations of men and women : `` In their relations , she was the giver and he the receiver , nay the demander .
(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)
More_than anything , it is the therapist 's intuitive sensing of these latent meanings in the stereotype which helps these meanings to become revealed , something like a spread-out deck_of_cards , on sporadic occasions over the passage of the patient 's and his months of work together .
Synonyms intuitive glandular visceral Related Terms natural spontaneous2. intuitive [ a ] obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
Synonyms nonrational visceral intuitive Related Terms illogicalSimilar Spelling
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