attuned

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Attuned means finely aware of and responsive to something. Attuned to her mood, well attuned, attuned to the market.

It always takes to and describes a sensitivity built up over time rather than a natural gift. The image is musical, since being attuned is being tuned to the same pitch as something else.

Definitions of attuned

1adjectiveattunedFinely aware of and responsive to something.C2
“After years as a nurse, she is attuned to the smallest changes in a patient's mood.”

attuned is a state.

Where it comes from

attune comes from ad- + tune.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

attuned in the wild

Essentially, awareness is the state of being attuned to, or mindful of something, whether it is a physical sensation or an idea.
Awareness
The person seeking direction shares stories of their encounters of the divine, or how they are cultivating a life attuned to spiritual things.
Spiritual direction
Since June 2012, the museum's visitors follow a different path through the permanent collections: educational, chronological and attuned to the work, highlighting Bourdelle's artistic evolution.
Musée Bourdelle
According to Erika Esau, the magazine "represented the politically detached aspirations of the aesthetically attuned of the Western world.
Der Querschnitt
Soriano of the Manila Standard gave the film a negative review, criticizing it as "hallow and hollow" and "strictly attuned for the fans of the two lead stars".
Taray at Teroy

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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