"gut feeling" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-gut feeling.ogg [Australia] Forms: gut feelings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gut feeling (plural gut feelings)
  1. (idiomatic) An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale. Wikipedia link: gut feeling Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: gut feel Related terms: gut instinct, gut reaction, go with one's gut Translations (an instinct or intuition): intuïció [feminine] (Catalan), pressentiment [masculine] (Catalan), 直覺 (Chinese Mandarin), 直觉 (zhíjué) (english: intuition) (Chinese Mandarin), 預感 (Chinese Mandarin), 预感 (yùgǎn) (english: premonition) (Chinese Mandarin), mavefornemmelse [common-gender] (Danish), buikgevoel [neuter] (Dutch), näppituntuma (Finnish), tunne (Finnish), aavistus (Finnish), mututuntuma (Finnish), perstuntuma (Finnish), intuition [feminine] (French), pressentiment [masculine] (French), réaction viscérale [feminine] (French), Bauchgefühl [neuter] (German), Intuition [feminine] (German), 直感 (chokkan) (english: intuition) (alt: ちょっかん) (Japanese), 予感 (yokan) (english: premonition) (alt: よかん) (Japanese), 직감 (jikgam) (alt: 直感) (Korean), 예감 (yegam) (alt: 預感) (Korean), 육감 (yukgam) (alt: 六感) (Korean), magefølelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), przeczucie [imperfective] (Polish), pressentimento [masculine] (Portuguese), шесто́е чу́вство (šestóje čúvstvo) (english: sixth sense or feeling) [neuter] (Russian), вну́треннее чу́вство (vnútrenneje čúvstvo) (english: internal feeling) [neuter] (Russian), интуи́ция (intuícija) (english: intuition) [feminine] (Russian), предчу́вствие (predčúvstvije) (english: premonition) [neuter] (Russian), чутьё (čutʹjó) [neuter] (Russian), нюх (njux) (note: "scent") [colloquial, masculine] (Russian), šesto čulo [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), presentimiento [masculine] (Spanish), corazonada [feminine] (Spanish), magkänsla [common-gender] (Swedish)

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      "word": "magkänsla"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gut feeling"
}

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