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counterintuitive

adj
/ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/US

Etymology

From counter- + intuitive. Coined by Noam Chomsky in 1955 as “counter-intuitive”.

  1. derived from intueri
  2. derived from intuitivus
  3. borrowed from intuitif
  4. prefixed as counterintuitive — “counter + intuitive”

Definitions

  1. Contrary to intuition or common sense.

    • With the students who worked on drafts in class, a number of aspects of lexicography proved challenging and counterintuitive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for counterintuitive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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