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Alignment vs Attunement - What's the difference?

alignment | attunement |

As nouns the difference between alignment and attunement

is that alignment is an arrangement of items in a line while attunement is (uncountable) the quality of being in tune with something.

alignment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An arrangement of items in a line.
  • The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
  • An alliance of factions.
  • (astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
  • (transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
  • (gaming) In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take.
  • (bioinformatic) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.

    • Derived terms

    * stone alignment

    Anagrams

    * lamenting

    attunement

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being in tune with something
  • * {{quote-book, 1969, , Classics Revisited citation
    • , passage=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.}}
  • (countable) The process of attuning or becoming attuned
  • * {{quote-book, 2006, Frater W.I.T., Enochian Initiations citation
    • , passage=My attunement to this power is accomplished.}}