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Attunement vs Atonement - What's the difference?

attunement | atonement |

As nouns the difference between attunement and atonement

is that attunement is (uncountable) the quality of being in tune with something while atonement is a repair done for the sake of a damaged relationship.

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.}}

    atonement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A repair done for the sake of a damaged relationship.
  • The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.

    • Derived terms

    * blood atonement * limited atonement * vicarious atonement

    See also

    * penance, expiation * Yom Kippur (Jewish holiday) * adunatio * (pedia) English words prefixed with at-