Attunement

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being in tune with something uncountable

    "We read Izaak Walton for his tone, for his perfect attunement to the quiet streams and flowered meadows and bosky hills of the Thames valley long ago."

  2. 2
    The process of attuning or becoming attuned countable

    "Deford's bio embodies one of the most perverse notions of modernity, namely that homosexuality is unmasculine and therefore incompatible with the manly attunement of body and spirit that is called for in athletics."

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accommodationaccordaccordanceadaptationadjustmentagreement

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"We read Izaak Walton for his tone, for his perfect attunement to the quiet streams and flowered meadows and bosky hills of the Thames valley long ago."

Etymology

From attune + -ment.

Related phrases

in tune

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