intuitively vs simply

Both 'intuitively' and 'simply' are correct, but they convey different meanings and are used in different contexts. 'Intuitively' is used when something is understood based on instinct or feeling, while 'simply' is used to indicate something is easy to understand or do.

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intuitively

The word 'intuitively' is correct and commonly used in English to describe understanding or knowing something instinctively or without the need for conscious reasoning.

Use 'intuitively' when you want to convey that something is understood based on instinct or feeling rather than conscious reasoning.

Examples:

She solved the puzzle intuitively, without needing to think about it.
Intuitively, I knew that he was lying.

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We do so, remember, intuitively, effortlessly.
Now, the model is intuitively right.
...to what all great artists knew intuitively.
Sir Isaac Newton gave a scientific explanation to what all great artists knew intuitively.
It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships.
In games and virtual worlds, for example, your facial expressions can naturally and intuitively be used to control an avatar or virtual character.
Licklider intuitively realized this, contemplating humans setting the goals, formulating the hypotheses, determining the criteria, and performing the evaluation.
Is it possible that muscle somehow intuitively knows that it needs this blood supply? It needs to be constantly contracting, so therefore it's almost selfish. It's grabbing its blood vessels for itself.
For one thing, it often happens spontaneously, intuitively, accidentally or incidentally.
And who knows if this nations' vitality is going to cost us more? - wrote Cioran, intuitively, in December
And you, of course, know this intuitively, don't you?
And I'm saying, well, the passion's still there, but the vessel that it's going to be injected into and poured into, that is instinctively and intuitively created first.
Intuitively you would expect people to react to something frightening - better than to a detailed message.
The overlong ears, the overlarge feet, helps us to picture, to feel intuitively, what it means to limp and to tremble.
For one thing, it often happens spontaneously, intuitively, accidentally or incidentally. It can be achieved out of innocence, or arrogance, or out of selfishness, sometimes out of carelessness.
He intuitively understood that you were the submissive.
We used to understand intuitively the importance of sleep.
The cameramen picked up on this intuitively... though it's not written down.
You seem to make all the correct moves - intuitively.
And of course we know this intuitively, that happiness is not just the absence of misery.

Alternatives:

instinctively
naturally
spontaneously
without thinking

simply

The word 'simply' is correct and commonly used in English to indicate that something is easy to understand or do.

Use 'simply' when you want to convey that something is straightforward, easy, or uncomplicated.