In rhetoric, eunoia (Ancient
Greek: εὔνοιᾰ, romanized: eúnoia, lit.
'well mind; beautiful thinking') is the goodwill a speaker cultivates between themselves 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 εὔνοιᾰ 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.
Greek: εὔνοιᾰ, romanized: eúnoia, lit.
'well mind; beautiful thinking') is the goodwill a speaker cultivates between themselves 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 εὔνοιᾰ 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.