Definition of Attunement

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

2. Noun. The process of attuning or becoming attuned ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Attunement

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Attunement

attritive
attrits
attritted
attritting
attry
attuent
attuite
attuited
attuites
attuiting
attuition
attunable
attune
attuned
attunedness
attunement (current term)
attunements
attunes
attuning
atua
atuas
atumble
atwain
atweel
atween
atwind
atwinkle
atwirl
atwist
atwite

Literary usage of Attunement

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

1. A Text-book of Experimental Psychology: With Laboratory Exercises by Charles Samuel Myers (1911)
"There is thus no evidence of extension of the attunement effect to the opposite side of the body. This investigation was followed by others in which the ..."

2. The Esoteric: A Magazine of Advanced and Practical Esoteric Thought edited by Hiram Erastus Butler (1889)
"attunement WITH THE UNIVERSAL MIND. IN the earlier attempts at living the esoteric life, many doubts and difficulties arise as to whereof it consists. ..."

3. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"... acclimated protoplasm will necessarily be different and respond differently from their parents. Individual attunement will initiate a race attunement. ..."

4. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple (1914)
"The subject of a test is thrown by the examiner's instructions into what may be termed a 'set' or an 'attunement' for the work before him. ..."

5. Introduction to Experimental Education by Robert Robertson Rusk (1912)
"Two quite different forms of attunement, according to Meumann, ... With the other form of attunement, however, these characteristics are reversed. ..."

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