different between intuition vs transcendentalist

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 +? -ist

Noun

transcendentalist (plural transcendentalists)

1. One who believes in transcendentalism.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

     “I accept the universe” is reported to have been a favorite utterance of our New England transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller; and when some one repeated this phrase to Thomas Carlyle, his sardonic comment is said to have been: “Gad! she'd better!”

2. Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.

Related terms

• transcendentalism

See also

• Wikibooks: Transcendentalist Theology

Romanian

Etymology

From French transcendantaliste

Noun

transcendentalist m (plural transcendentali?ti)

1. transcendentalist

Declension