ATTUNEMENT Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

attunement

noun

Definition of attunement

as in harmonization

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Dissimilar Words

maladaptation

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Recent Examples of attunement Authenticity needs attunement—meaning, share openly, but notice when the room asks you to rein it in. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 In the Polish Pavilion, Bogna Burska and Daniel Kotowski explored communication beyond spoken language through immersive sound and image, proposing vibration, listening, and collective attunement as alternatives to institutional authority. — Thomas Rom, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026 Some of these approaches require meticulous scholarship and technical proficiency; others, an attunement to the invisible realms of feeling and folklore. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for attunement

Noun

Speakers also called for greater administrative harmonization and support for emerging creative industries.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026
The two organizations earlier this year unveiled a joint ESG harmonization framework aimed at supporting suppliers and preparing brands for coming European regulatory requirements.

— Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of harmonization

Noun

After a 2021 trial, Silver ruled against the state, issuing an injunction that required corrections authorities to address the constitutional violations.

— Jacques Billeaud, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
The city currently spends about $30 million a year on corrections, Atlanta’s Chief Financial Officer Mohamed Balla told council members Wednesday.

— Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of correction

Noun

This may be a helpful readjustment for your husband.

— R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
As the second day of Group of Seven discussions proceed in Paris, the aftermath of a bond-market readjustment factoring in more inflation has raised the burden of proof needed to keep borrowing costs unchanged.

— Craig Stirling, Bloomberg, 19 May 2026

Definition of readjustment

Noun

Among adults 50 and older who expect to need home modifications, 72% anticipate bathroom changes like grab bars or non-slip tile, according to AARP.

— Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2026
Among adults 50 and older who anticipate needing modifications, 72% expect bathroom changes like grab bars or non-slip surfaces, according to AARP.

— Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of modification

Noun

Cardtoons won because its alteration of the players’ appearances was deemed sufficiently inventive and, through parody, the cards reflected social commentary protected by the First Amendment that outweighed the players’ publicity rights claims.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2026
This included performing the first-ever lunar-Earth flyby in August 2024, and grabbing a speed boost and trajectory alteration from the second planet from the sun, Venus, a year later in August 2025.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of alteration

Noun

Months later, a report found the state hadn't complied with its own lethal injection process since its revision in 2018, resulting in executions being conducted without proper testing of the drugs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Earnings growth across the sector could see meaningful upward revisions as incremental data-center contracts are signed, and tightening power-market fundamentals drive upside to consensus estimates.

— Michael Khouw, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of revision

Noun

Every piece of marketing that shows the licensed product—a social post, an ad, even a spontaneous Instagram Reel—needs prior approval, which is a real adjustment for e-commerce brands used to posting the moment something sells out.

— David Born, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
The new, aptly named Perpetual Padellone retains the original’s vintage aesthetics, but is equipped with a new annual calendar (Caliber 7190) that automatically accounts for 30- and 31-day months and requires adjustment just once a year.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of adjustment

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