Intuition – Paranoia

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Intuition

–noun
1.

direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.

2. a fact, truth, etc., perceived in this way.
3. a keen and quick insight.
4. the quality or ability of having such direct perception or quick insight.
5. Philosophy.
a. an immediate cognition of an object not inferred or determined by a previous cognition of the same object.
b. any object or truth so discerned.
c. pure, untaught, noninferential knowledge.
6. Linguistics. the ability of the native speaker to make linguistic judgments, as of the grammaticality, ambiguity, equivalence, or nonequivalence of sentences, deriving from the speaker’s native-language competence.

Word Origin & History

intuition
1497, from M.Fr. intuition, from L.L. intuitionem (nom. intuitio) “a looking at, consideration,” from L. intuitus, pp. of intueri “look at, consider,” from in- “at, on” + tueri “to look at, watch over” (see tuition). The verb intuit is an 1840 back-formation apparently coined by De Quincey.

Paranoia

–noun
1. Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
2. baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others.

Word Origin & History

paranoia
“mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions,” 1891 (earlier paranoea 1811), from Gk. paranoia “mental derangement, madness,” from paranoos “mentally ill, insane,” from para- “beside, beyond” + noos “mind.” Paranoid (adj.) is first attested 1904, from paranoia + Gk. -oeides “like,” from eidos “form, shape” (see -oid). The noun meaning “a paranoid person” is attested from 1922.