gut feeling
noun
a personal, intuitive judgment, hunch, or inclination with regard to someone's character, a course of action, an idea, etc.
gut feelings
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pluralof gut feeling.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Denning also includes intuition, gut feelings, imagination, and spontaneous creativity among the forms of tacit knowledge that remain beyond the reach of machines.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
If you bet money on whims and hunches, you’ll pull it right back out based on gut feelings, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
But the reality is that there wasn’t any need for evidence: many of these users made their claims based on gut feelings.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2026
Drawing from their collective experiences with anxiety, depression and heartbreak, they say they prioritize raw emotion and trusting their gut feelings in their creative process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
That’s why it wasn’t enough for the people in the music business who loved Kenna to act on their gut feelings.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
