Eunoia
Template:Short description Template:Italic title Template:About Template:Rhetoric In rhetoric, eunoia (Template:Langx)<ref name="BBC2008">Template:Cite news</ref> is the good will that speakers cultivate between themselves and their audiences, a condition of receptivity.<ref name="Garver1994">Template:Cite book</ref> In Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle uses the term to refer to the kind and benevolent feelings of good will a spouse has which form the basis for the ethical foundation of human life.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Cicero translates {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} with the Latin word {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}.<ref>Gloria Vivenza, "Classical Roots of Benevolence in Economic Thought," Ancient Economic Thought (Routledge, 1997) pp. 198–199, 204–208 online; Cicero's influence on patristic usage, Carolinne White, Christian Friendship in the Fourth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1992, 2002), pp. 16–17 online, 32, and p. 255, note 13.</ref>
It is also a rarely used medical term referring to a state of normal mental health.<ref>Definition: eunoia from Online Medical Dictionary</ref> Eunoia is the shortest English word containing all five main vowel graphemes.<ref name="BBC2008"/>
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. Christian Bök was a consultant on that series and helped develop the language.
- The debut album of math rock band Invalids.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 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,<ref>There’s going to be a new junior college called Eunoia; here’s how to pronounce it</ref> including memes referencing Singlish homophones.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Eunoia Technologies is the name of the firm Christopher Wylie founded after leaving Cambridge Analytica
- In electronic dance music, Eunoia is a song by wave/phonk artist KTrek (2020). <ref>Eunoia - Ktrek</ref>
- In classical music, Eunoia is a piano composition by Juan María Solare in the key of C Major (2021)
- In 2023, South Korean group Billlie released the album The Billage of Perception: Chapter Three featuring the lead single "Eunoia" <ref> Billlie | 'EUNOIA' M/V</ref>Template:Unreliable source?
- In 2024, Japanese band Envy_(band) announced the release of their 8th album, 'Eunoia'. <ref>ENVY - EUNOIA</ref>
See also
- Iouea, a similarly short word with all the vowels.