Definition of Attuent

1. operating between sensation and perception [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Attuent

attriteness
attriter
attriters
attrites
attriting
attrition
attrition damage
attrition rate
attritional
attritions
attritive
attrits
attritted
attritting
attry
attuent (current term)
attuite
attuited
attuites
attuiting
attuition
attunable
attune
attuned
attunedness
attunement
attunements
attunes
attuning
atua

Literary usage of Attuent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ethica: Or, The Ethics of Reason by Simon Somerville Laurie (1891)
"... the attuent man as the subject of impressions on outer sense (the inner sense having been only casually adverted to); and we have seen what he does with ..."

2. Synthetica: Being Meditations Epistemological and Ontological by Simon Somerville Laurie (1906)
"... (/) Repetition of point of view; (g) Unifying by the attuent Consciousness; (h) Absolute Knowledge ..."

3. A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents by James Martineau (1900)
"How I should feel therefore, if I were abandoned to the reflex portion of my activity, and reduced to the 'attuent' condition, I find it impossible to judge ..."

4. Institutes of Education, Comprising an Introduction to Rational Psychology by Simon Somerville Laurie (1892)
"That conscious or attuent activity, being within the sphere of the dynamical, ... Where there is no self-concentration, these conscious or attuent ..."

5. Institutes of Education: Comprising an Introduction to Rational Psychology by Simon Somerville Laurie (1892)
"That conscious or attuent activity, being within the sphere of the dynamical, ... Where there is no self-concentration, these conscious or attuent ..."

6. A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents by James Martineau (1888)
"A simply attuent creature, it is said, discriminates objects in space from one another, but not from himself; he is prevented by their differences from ..."

7. A Study of Ethical Principles by James Seth (1905)
"The present and immediate, the natural or ' attuent,'1 life is engrossing, clamant, fascinating. The lines of impulse and instinct, the lines of nature, ..."

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