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intuitive type

in Carl Jung’s analytic psychology, a functional type characterized by an ability to adapt “by means of unconscious indications” and “a fine and sharpened perception and interpretation of faintly conscious stimuli.” The intuitive type is one of Jung’s two irrational types; the other is the sensation type. See also feeling type; thinking type.

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January 29th 2025

emic

emic

adj.

1. denoting an approach to the study of human cultures that interprets behaviors and practices in terms of the system of meanings created by and operative within a particular cultural context. Such an approach would generally be of the kind associated with ethnography rather than ethnology. Compare etic. [introduced by U.S. linguist Kenneth Pike (1912–2000); first used in anthropology by U.S. cultural anthropologist Marvin Harris (1927–2001)]

2. in linguistics, see emic–etic distinction.