different between intuitive vs eidetic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?tju??t?v/

Adjective

intuitive (comparative more intuitive, superlative most intuitive)

1. Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
   • 2013 February 16, Laurie Goodstein, “Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope”, NYTimes.com:

     These impressions [of potential papal candidates], collected from interviews with a variety of church officials and experts, may influence the very intuitive, often unpredictable process the cardinals will use to decide who should lead the world’s largest church.

   The intuitive response turned out to be correct.

2. Easily understood or grasped by intuition.

   Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.

3. Having a marked degree of intuition.

Antonyms

• unintuitive
• nonintuitive
• counterintuitive

Related terms

• intuition
• intuit

Translations

Noun

intuitive (plural intuitives)

1. One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.

French

Adjective

intuitive

1. feminine singular of intuitif

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

intuitive

1. inflection of intuitiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

intuitive

1. feminine plural of intuitivo

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

intuitive

1. definite singular of intuitiv
2. plural of intuitiv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

intuitive

1. definite singular of intuitiv
2. plural of intuitiv

English

Etymology

From German eidetisch, from Ancient Greek ????????? (eid?tikós), from ????? (eîdos, “form”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??d?t?k/

Adjective

eidetic (comparative more eidetic, superlative most eidetic)

1. Marked by or resulting from extraordinary ability to recall detailed and vivid mental images of visual images.
   • 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin 2001, p. 276:

Related terms

• eidetics
• eidetiker

Translations

See also

• photographic memory

References

• eidetic at OneLook Dictionary Search
• eidetic memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• eidetic phenomenology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

From French eidétique

Adjective

eidetic m or n (feminine singular eidetic?, masculine plural eidetici, feminine and neuter plural eidetice)

1. eidetic

Declension