| Main Entry: | instinct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gut feeling, idea |
Synonyms: |
aptitude, faculty, feeling, funny feeling, gift, gut reaction, hunch, impulse, inclination, intuition, knack, know-how, nose*, predisposition, proclivity, savvy*, sense, sentiment, sixth sense, talent, tendency, urge |
Antonyms: |
knowledge, reason |
| Main Entry: | instinct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
loose, absonant, absonous, anterior to reason, feeble, flimsy, foolish, frivolous, gratuitous, groundless, hazarded, illogical, impulsive, inconclusive, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, incorrect, independent of reason, instinctive, intuitive, invalid, irrational, irrelevant, nonsensical, not following, poor, unconnected, unproved, unreasonable, unscientific, unsound, untenable, unwarranted, vague, weak
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| Main Entry: | faculty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, skill |
Synonyms: |
adroitness, aptitude, aptness, bent, capability, capacity, cleverness, dexterity, facility, flair, forte, genius, gift, instinct, intelligence, knack, knowing way around, leaning, nose*, peculiarity, penchant, pistol, power, predilection, proclivity, propensity, property, quality, readiness, reason, right stuff, sense, strength, talent, turn, what it takes, wits |
| Notes: | a facility is a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry or a skillful performance or ability without difficulty; faculty is one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind or the body of teachers and administrators at a school |
Antonyms: |
inability, incompetence, ineptness, lack, need |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, impression |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, belief, consciousness, conviction, eye*, hunch, inclination, inkling, instinct, mind, notion, opinion, outlook, persuasion, point of view, presentiment, reaction, sense, sentiment, suspicion, thought, view |
Antonyms: |
concrete, solid, thing |
| Main Entry: | gift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talent, aptitude |
Synonyms: |
ability, accomplishment, acquirement, aptness, attainment, attribute, bent, capability, capacity, endowment, faculty, flair, forte, genius, head*, instinct, knack, leaning, nose*, numen, power, propensity, set, specialty, turn |
| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling, glimmer, hint, impression, inkling, instinct, intuition, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, premonition, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought |
Antonyms: |
proof, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | impulse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drive, resolve |
Synonyms: |
actuation, appeal, bent, caprice, catalyst, desire, disposition, excitant, extemporization, fancy, feeling, flash*, goad, hunch, impellent, impulsion, incitation, incitement, inclination, influence, inspiration, instinct, itch, lash, lust, mind, motivation, motive, notion, passion, spontaneity, spur, thought, urge, vagary, whim, whimsy, wish, yen |
| Main Entry: | intuition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight |
Synonyms: |
ESP, clairvoyance, discernment, divination, feeling*, foreknowledge, gut reaction, hunch, innate knowledge, inspiration, instinct, intuitiveness, nose*, penetration, perception, perceptivity, premonition, presentiment, second sight, sixth sense |
Antonyms: |
knowledge, reason, reasoning |
| Main Entry: | mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intelligence |
Synonyms: |
apperception, attention, brain*, brainpower, brains, capacity, cognizance, conception, consciousness, creativity, faculty, function, genius, head, imagination, ingenuity, instinct, intellect, intellectual, intellectuality, intuition, judgment, lucidity, marbles, mentality, observation, perception, percipience, power, psyche, ratiocination, reason, reasoning, regard, sanity, sense, soul, soundness, spirit, talent, thinker, thought, understanding, wisdom, wits |
Antonyms: |
body, corporeality, physicality |
| Main Entry: | sixth sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extrasensory perception |
Synonyms: |
ESP, ESP, clairvoyance, divination, extrasensory perception, feeling, feeling in one's bones, foreknowledge, foresight, gut feeling, gut feeling, hunch, insight, instinct, intuition, intuitiveness, keen intuition, perception, premonition, second sight, second sight, telepathy, vibes |