attunement

English

Etymology

attune +‎ -ment

Noun

attunement (countable and uncountable, plural attunements)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being in tune with something
   • 1969, Kenneth Rexroth, Classics Revisited‎^[1], page 197:

     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. (countable) The process of attuning or becoming attuned
   • 1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 16:

     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.

   • 2006, Frater W.I.T., Enochian Initiations‎^[2], →ISBN, page 92:

     My attunement to this power is accomplished.

Derived terms

• misattunement