Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Psychology Characterized by a high degree of emotional responsiveness to the environment.
- adjective Electricity Of or relating to two oscillating circuits having the same resonant frequency.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In electricity, swinging together, or in resonance with each other, as the sender and the receiver in selective wireless telegraphy; pertaining to, or exhibiting, syntonism.
- Same as
syntonous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physics) Of or pert. to syntony; specif., designating, or pert. to, a system of wireless telegraphy in which the transmitting and receiving apparatus are in syntony with, and only with, one another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective psychology In
harmony orsynergy with one'spersonality andmilieu . - adjective physics, of oscillating systems Having the same
frequency .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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More than Sephora, the atmosphere in Aveda feels syntonic with the idea of beauty, if beauty carries with it an aura of serenity, balance, and wellness.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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More than Sephora, the atmosphere in Aveda feels syntonic with the idea of beauty, if beauty carries with it an aura of serenity, balance, and wellness.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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This variety involves paranoid traits ... and ego-syntonic aggression ...
Judith M. Bardwick: That Something Is Published Does Not Make It True 2009
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They are ego-syntonic, acceptable to the normally-functioning mind.
Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 3 2008
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It has become ego-syntonic, or culturally syntonic, to be obsessed with healthy eating!
Donna Fish: Healthy Eating Obsession Gets Red Alert on the Today Show 2008
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It also means that the sort of "doing and making" that tends to improve learning needs to be explicated. eg. turtle geometry might work because it is "body syntonic".
untangling constructionism Bill Kerr 2008
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It has become ego-syntonic, or culturally syntonic, to be obsessed with healthy eating!
Donna Fish: HEALTHY EATING OBSESSION Gets Red Alert on the Tod 2008
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It also means that the sort of "doing and making" that tends to improve learning needs to be explicated. eg. turtle geometry might work because it is "body syntonic".
Archive 2008-05-01 Bill Kerr 2008
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And this image is not "ego-syntonic," as is said in the field.
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It is important to understand that the use of violence must be ego-syntonic.
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