Meanings
plural gut feelings · alternative gut feel
- idiomaticAn instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale.
Houston had a gut feeling he was being followed, so he hurried to his car.
2 more examples
Don't think too hard about the answers to a personality test; just go with your gut feeling.
“At the root are these moral intuitions — these gut feelings — and they are very strong,” said Jeff Huntsinger, a social psychologist at Loyola University Chicago who studies emotion and decision-making and collaborated with Dr. Omer’s team.
2021 April 29, Sabrina Tavernise, quoting Jeff Huntsinger, “Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2021Synonyms: gut instinct
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale.
Translations
Catalan intuïció, pressentiment
- intuïcióan instinct or intuition
- pressentimentan instinct or intuition
Chinese Mandarin 直覺 /直觉, 預感 /预感
- 直覺 /直觉 (zhíjué)an instinct or intuition
- 預感 /预感 (yùgǎn)an instinct or intuition
Danish mavefornemmelse
- mavefornemmelsean instinct or intuition
Dutch buikgevoel
- buikgevoelan instinct or intuition
Finnish näppituntuma, tunne
- näppituntumaan instinct or intuition
- tunnean instinct or intuition
- aavistusan instinct or intuition
- mututuntumaan instinct or intuition
- perstuntumaan instinct or intuition
French intuition, pressentiment
- intuitionan instinct or intuition
- pressentimentan instinct or intuition
- réaction viscéralean instinct or intuition
German Bauchgefühl, Intuition
- Bauchgefühlan instinct or intuition
- Intuitionan instinct or intuition
Japanese 直感, 予感
- 直感 (chokkan)an instinct or intuition
- 予感 (yokan)an instinct or intuition
Korean 직감, 예감
- 직감 (jikgam)an instinct or intuition
- 예감 (yegam)an instinct or intuition
- 육감 (yukgam)an instinct or intuition
Norwegian Bokmål magefølelse
- magefølelsean instinct or intuition
Polish przeczucie
- przeczuciean instinct or intuition
Portuguese pressentimento
- pressentimentoan instinct or intuition
Russian шесто́е чу́вство, вну́треннее чу́вство
- шесто́е чу́вство (šestóje čúvstvo)an instinct or intuition
- вну́треннее чу́вство (vnútrenneje čúvstvo)an instinct or intuition
- интуи́ция (intuícija)an instinct or intuition
- предчу́вствие (predčúvstvije)an instinct or intuition
- чутьё (čutʹjó)an instinct or intuition
- нюх (njux)an instinct or intuition
Spanish presentimiento, corazonada
- presentimientoan instinct or intuition
- corazonadaan instinct or intuition
Swedish magkänsla
- magkänslaan instinct or intuition
Turkish önsezi
- önsezian instinct or intuition
Cite this entry
gut feeling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gut%20feeling
“gut feeling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gut%20feeling. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gut feeling,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gut%20feeling.
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