Eunoia

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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>Template:Cite web</ref> Cicero translates Template:Lang with the Latin word Template: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"/>

See also

  • Iouea, a similarly short word with all the vowels.

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