different between intuition vs transcendentalism

English

Alternative forms

• intuïtion (pedantic)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??ntj?????n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ntuw????n/

Noun

intuition (countable and uncountable, plural intuitions)

1. Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
2. A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.

Derived terms

Translations

References

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

Danish

Noun

intuition c (singular definite intuitionen, plural indefinite intuitioner)

1. intuition

Declension

Related terms

• intuere
• intuitiv

References

• “intuition” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Noun

intuition

1. Genitive singular form of intuitio.

Anagrams

• innoittui

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intu?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t?i.sj??/

Noun

intuition f (plural intuitions)

1. (uncountable, philosophy) intuition (cognitive faculty)
2. (countable) intuition, hunch
3. premonition

Derived terms

• intuitionner
• intuitionnel

Related terms

• intuitif

Further reading

• “intuition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

transcendental +? -ism

Noun

transcendentalism (countable and uncountable, plural transcendentalisms)

1. The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
3. A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
4. A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

Related terms

• philosophy
• religion
• transcendental
• transcendentalist

Translations

See also

• transcendentalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wikibooks: Transcendentalist Theology

Romanian

Etymology

From French transcendantalisme

Noun

transcendentalism n (uncountable)

1. transcendentalism

Declension