gut feeling
Instinct without reasoning
A gut feeling is an instinctive sense about something that isn't based on conscious reasoning or evidence.
The gut here refers to the abdomen, long associated with deep emotional responses and intuition.
When you have a gut feeling about a person or situation, you sense something is right or wrong without being able to explain why.
My gut feeling told me not to take the job, even though everything looked good on paper.
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- visceralArising from deep instinct
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- inner voiceUnspoken mental dialogue
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
intuition · premonition · sense · tacit knowledge · stomach · presentiment · pattern recognition · snap judgment · first impression · knot · subconscious influence · inkling · intangible · decision-making · queasy · judgment · twinge · unease
- body metaphorsbackbone, blind spot, headache, heartbeat, lifeblood
- guessingguess, prediction, hypothesis, conjecture, speculation
- gut feelingshunch, instinct, intuition, sixth sense, inkling
- instinctsinstinct, survival instinct, survival instincts, maternal instinct, herd instinct
- body idiomsheart of gold, heart of stone, cold heart, warm heart, soft heart
- street smartsstreet smarts, savvy, resourceful, resourcefulness, cunning
gut feelinglogical reasoning
Structured thought process
analytical thinking · systematic thinking · analytical reasoning · critical thinking · deductive reasoning
gut feelingempirical evidence
Proof from measurable observation
factual basis · statistical analysis · quantitative data · research findings · forensic evidence
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