counterintuitive
adjUS /ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/ · UK /ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv/
Etymology From counter- + intuitive. Coined by Noam Chomsky in 1955 as “counter-intuitive”.
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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.2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146:
- Antonyms
- intuitive
- Derived terms
- counterintuitively, counterintuitiveness, counterintuitivity
- Related terms
- counterintuition