Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

attunement

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English

Syllables: at-tune-ment
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The quality of being in tune with something

Uncountable

noun

The process of attuning or becoming attuned

Countable

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"My attunement to this power is accomplished."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad-bor. English ad- English tune English attune Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English attunement From attune + -ment.

Usage

Inflected Forms

attunements (plural)

Derived Forms

misattunement

Questions

What does attunement mean?: The quality of being in tune with something
Where does attunement come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad-bor. English ad- English tune English attune Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English attunement From attune + -ment.

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