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counterintuition

n. 1 (context countable English) Something counterintuitive. 2 (context uncountable English) intuition that is contrary to what one would expect

Usage examples of "counterintuition".

It featured the sort of plangent counterintuition for which he has become famous: “If you both own a gun and have a swimming pool in the backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

It featured the sort of plangent counterintuition for which he has become famous: "If you both own a gun and have a swimming pool in the backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.