Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Intuition that is contrary to what one would expect.
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- noun countable Something
counterintuitive . - noun uncountable
intuition that iscontrary to what one would expect
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Examples
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Getting there took a cultural transfusion, a dose of counterintuition and a lot of digital advertising revenue.
The Atlantic Becomes Profitable The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Lambert acknowledged the attrition rate among the hand-raisers and offered this nugget of genealogical counterintuition.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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CNN, I don't want to see you plumbing the depths of your counterintuition on your website, or lending credence to the notion that the gutless mopes in their cars, shrieking racial slurs at the images of children have an interesting point of view that we should "hear out" because of the need to be "balanced."
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CNN, I don't want to see you plumbing the depths of your counterintuition on your website, or lending credence to the notion that the gutless mopes in their cars, shrieking racial slurs at the images of children have an interesting point of view that we should "hear out" because of the need to be "balanced."
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Lambert acknowledged the attrition rate among the hand-raisers and offered this nugget of genealogical counterintuition.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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Getting there took a cultural transfusion, a dose of counterintuition and a lot of digital advertising revenue.
The Atlantic Becomes Profitable nytimes.com 2010
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And just briefly skimming what I can find on counterintuition on the net, it seems that treatment of counterintuitive statements in terms of, effectively, pseudo-propositions, is an unusual characterization.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
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And just briefly skimming what I can find on counterintuition on the net, it seems that treatment of counterintuitive statements in terms of, effectively, pseudo-propositions, is an unusual characterization.
Counterintuition 2005
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"Indeed" is one example after another of resistance, or counterintuition or putting things in unlikely boxes.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011
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CNN, I don't want to see you plumbing the depths of your counterintuition on your website, or lending credence to the notion that the gutless mopes in their cars, shrieking racial slurs at the images of children have an interesting point of view that we should "hear out" because of the need to be
FAZED 2010
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