gut issue

1. 1.

   an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions

   Synonymshot-button issue

   Broaderissue

Questions about gut issue

What does gut issue mean?

gut issue means "an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions".

What is another word for gut issue?

Close synonyms include hot-button issue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gut issue a common word?

gut issue is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.