hunches
Instincts without evidence
Hunches is the plural of hunch in its noun sense—an intuitive feeling or suspicion not based on evidence: I had a hunch she was lying.
To play a hunch is to act on intuition rather than logic.
The verb hunch means to bend or curve the body forward: He hunched over his desk.
Hunched shoulders suggest tension or cold.
Innate behavioral tendency
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
- sensePerception or judgment
- feelingSensed inner state
insight · intuitive · visceral · subconscious · foreboding · presentiment · suspicion · notion
Guess from limited facts
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
- guessEstimate without certainty
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
- suppositionBelief without proof
inference · estimation · approximation · guesstimate · presumption · hypothesis · theory · deduction
Uneasy feeling of doubt
- doubtLack of firm belief
- warinessCautious distrust
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
- distrustAbsence of confidence
reservation · unease · apprehension · qualm · uncertainty · caution · disquiet · concern
instinct
Innate behavioral tendency
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
- sensePerception or judgment
feeling · insight · intuitive · visceral · subconscious · foreboding · presentiment · suspicion · notion · impression
conjecture
Guess from limited facts
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
- guessEstimate without certainty
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
supposition · inference · estimation · approximation · guesstimate · presumption · hypothesis · theory · deduction · postulation
crouch
Low bent-knee stance
curl · huddle · cower · lean · curve · arch · round · scrunch · squatting · crouching
misgiving
Uneasy feeling of doubt
- doubtLack of firm belief
- warinessCautious distrust
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
distrust · reservation · unease · apprehension · qualm · uncertainty · caution · disquiet · concern · hesitation
- premonitionspremonitions, forebodings, presentiments, forewarnings, omens
- inner lifeidentity, feelings, memory, thoughts, self-discovery
- curling upsnuggles, nestles, tucks, coils, balls up
- guessworkguesswork, educated guess, educated guesses, conjecture, speculation
- speculationconjecture, guess, guessing, speculation, hypothesis
- intuitive knowledgeinstinct, gut feeling, intuition, tacit knowledge, procedural memory
hunchesdeductions
Conclusions from reasoning
analyses · proofs · inferences · calculations · demonstrations
hunchescertainties
Assured truths
hard evidence · facts · known quantities · sure things · guarantees
- hunched over
- hunch overCurve torso forward
- hunched shoulders
- hunched backAbnormally curved upper spine
- The HunchbackCurved-spine recluse
hunch, hunched, hunchback, hunching, hunchbacked, hunch over