Triviaility vs. Intuition: If I say something is trivial, can I say it's intuitive?

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If I say that something has triviality context, can I say that something is intuition?

Is Triviality = intuition?!
 
If I say that something has triviality context, can I say that something is intuition?

Is Triviality = intuition?!
This is a question about English usage. What is mathematically trivial is easy to prove: for example

\(\displaystyle 1^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + 4^2 = \dfrac{4 * 9 * 5}{6}.\)

That is very easy to confirm, but it is not intuitive. What is intuitive is something that the human mind perceives to be true without proof. A triviality is true but not profound. An intuition may not be true, but if true may be profound. Still, many trivialities are indeed intuitive. There is partial overlap rather than identity.
 
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