inklingnoun [ C usually singular, U ]
uk/ˈɪŋ.klɪŋ/us/ˈɪŋ.klɪŋ/a feeling that something is true or likely to happen, although you are not certain:
[ + that ] I didn't have the slightest inkling that she was unhappy.
He must have had some inkling of what was happening.
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Ideas, concepts and theories
- abstract
- afterthought
- brainchild
- concept
- conception
- construct
- dogma
- fancy
- intellectual property
- IP
- ism
- meat
- motif
- proposition
- punctuated equilibrium
- sacred cow
- straw man
- tenet
- the domino theory
- thrust
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Predicting things and intuition