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intuition (medicine) and circumstantiality (medicine)


intuition (medicine)


intuition


Knowing or understanding without conscious use of reasoning.


circumstantiality (medicine)


circumstantiality


A disturbance in the thought process, either voluntary or involuntary, in which one gives an excessive amount of detail (circumstances) that is often tangential, elaborate, and irrelevant, to avoid making a direct statement or answer to a question; observed in schizophrenia and in obsessional disorders.

Compare: tangentiality.

Origin: L. Circum-sto, pr. P. -stans, to stand around