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In rhetoric, eunoia (Ancient Greek: ??????, translit. eúnoia, lit. 'well mind; beautiful thinking') is the goodwill a speaker cultivates between themself and their audience, a condition of receptivity. In Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle uses the term to refer to the kind and benevolent feelings of goodwill a spouse has which form the basis for the ethical foundation of human life. Cicero translates ?????? with the Latin word benevolentia.
It is also a rarely-used medical term referring to a state of normal mental health. Eunoia is the shortest English word containing all five main vowel graphemes.
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In popular culture
- Eunoia is a work by poet Christian Bök consisting of five chapters, each one using only one vowel.
- In the science-fiction television series Earth: Final Conflict, Eunoia is the name of the native language of the Taelon race. Bök was a consultant on that series and helped develop the language.
- The debut album of math rock band Invalids.
- In December 2015, the Ministry of Education in Singapore unveiled the name of a new junior College set to open in 2017, Eunoia Junior College. The unfamiliar name generated significant buzz in the Singapore community when it was first announced, including memes referencing Singlish homophones.
Maps Eunoia
See also
- Iouea, a similarly short word with all the vowels.
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References
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External links
- The dictionary definition of eunoia at Wiktionary
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