attuition

English

Noun

attuition (countable and uncountable, plural attuitions)

  1. (psychology) A supposed form of apprehension midway between sensation in animals and perception in human beings.
    • 1898, S. S. Laurie, “The Growth of Mind”, in The School Review, volume 6, number 2, page 83n:
      But what of non-rational beings—the animal or infant-man of attuition?

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