1.
gut feeling; intuitive sense; firsthand feel
An intuitive sense or gut feeling about something, grounded in direct personal experience rather than data or theory. Often used of a practitioner's on-the-ground grasp of a situation.
肌感覚で分かる。
I can tell by gut feeling.
現場の肌感覚を大切にする。
I value the firsthand feel of the front line.
数字よりも、消費者の肌感覚を重視した。
We placed more weight on consumers' intuitive sense than on the numbers.
An intuitive feel for something built up through direct, hands-on experience, contrasted with knowledge from statistics or theory.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 肌感覚で分かる: to grasp intuitively
- 肌感覚に合う: to match one's gut sense
- 現場の肌感覚: on-the-ground feel
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 皮膚感覚: cutaneous/tactile sense — literal skin sensation, also used figuratively much like 肌感覚
- 直感: intuition — a sudden flash of insight, less tied to accumulated experience