ATTUNEMENT Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

attunement

noun

Definition of attunement next

as in harmonization

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Dissimilar Words

maladaptation

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Recent Examples of attunement The researchers positioned intuitive attunement as something that gets dulled by painful experience and reclaimed through healing. —

Nia Bowers, USA Today, 8 May 2026 The route to durable faith in God often runs not through logical proofs or the sciences, but through awe, wonder, and an attunement to the beauty and poetry of the world, natural and otherwise. —

Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026 The novel, which jumps around in time from spectral reminiscences of the nineteenth century to the late 1980s and early 1990s and into the twenty-first century, follows the members of a Brooklyn family attempting to find stability while struggling with their strange attunement to the dead. —

Omari Weekes, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026 Still, there’s an unsettling calm, an attunement to the fragile truce between humankind and the capricious planet that nourishes it. —

Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 11 Feb. 2026 The essence of numinous Pisces heightens our sensitivity, imagination and spiritual attunement, while the North Node represents our growth and karmic direction, making this a moment where trusting your inner compass matters more than external validation. —

Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026 In the years following Wallace’s death, this aura of saintliness likely derived from the combination of his moral seriousness as a fiction writer—his attunement to the heroism of private suffering and emotional endurance—and the fact of his premature end. —

Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026 The goal of healthy communication is emotional attunement. —

Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026 Chen described today’s relationships as more emotionally intensive than in the past, with higher expectations for presence, vulnerability and attunement. —

Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for attunement

Noun

On Wednesday, the two fashion industry bodies unveiled a joint ESG harmonization framework aimed at supporting suppliers and preparing brands for coming European regulatory requirements.

— Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 13 May 2026
Member states will then have a year to bring the measures into national law, except for Article 4 on harmonization, which must be adopted by July 28, 2028.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 26 Feb. 2026