Definition of "counterintuition" []

• Intuition that is contrary to what one would expect. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "CNN, I don't want to see you plumbing the depths of your counterintuition on your website, or lending credence to the notion that the gutless mopes in their cars, shrieking racial slurs at the images of children have an interesting point of view that we should "hear out" because of the need to be "balanced.""
• "Getting there took a cultural transfusion, a dose of counterintuition and a lot of digital advertising revenue."
• "Lambert acknowledged the attrition rate among the hand-raisers and offered this nugget of genealogical counterintuition."