Intuition vs. Instinct

Intuitionnoun

Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.

Intuitionnoun

A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

Intuitionnoun

A looking after; a regard to.

Intuitionnoun

Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; - distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.

Intuitionnoun

Any object or truth discerned by intuition.

Intuitionnoun

Any quick insight, recognized immediately without a reasoning process; a belief arrived at unconsciously; - often it is based on extensive experience of a subject.

Intuitionnoun

The ability to have insight into a matter without conscious thought; as, his chemical intuition allowed him to predict compound conformations without any conscious calculation; a mother's intuition often tells her what is best for her child.

Intuitionnoun

instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)

Intuitionnoun

an impression that something might be the case;

Intuitionnoun

the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning

Intuitionnoun

a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning

Intuition

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning. Different fields use the word in very different ways, including but not limited to: direct access to unconscious knowledge; unconscious cognition; inner sensing; inner insight to unconscious pattern-recognition; and the ability to understand something instinctively, without any need for conscious reasoning.The word intuition comes from the Latin verb intueri translated as or from the late middle English word intuit, .

Instinctnoun

A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.

Instinctnoun

An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought.

Instinctadjective

(archaic) Imbued, charged (with something).

Instinctadjective

Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.

Instinctnoun

Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.

Instinctnoun

Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without thought of improvement in the method.

Instinctnoun

A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.

Instinctverb

To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.

Instinctnoun

inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli;

Instinctadjective

(followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated;

Instinct

Instinct is the inherent inclination of a living organism towards a particular complex behaviour, containing both innate (inborn) and learned elements. The simplest example of an instinctive behavior is a fixed action pattern (FAP), in which a very short to medium length sequence of actions, without variation, are carried out in response to a corresponding clearly defined stimulus.