attunement

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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.

词形变化

attunements plural

词汇关系

衍生词
misattunement

词源

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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