eunoia

alternative eunœa

1. rhetoricuncountableGoodwill towards an audience, either perceived or real; the perception that the speaker has the audience's interest at heart.

   Direct argument is a dangerous strategy for developing eunoia, since "those who have many friends and treat everyone as close to them seem to be friends to no one, except in a fellow-citizens way. These people are regarded as ingratiating."

   1994, Eugene Garver, Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character, page 112

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   Yea the Apostle himself in the forecited 2 Cor. 6.14. alludes from that place of Deut. to forbid mis-yoking mariage; as by the Greek word is evident, though he instance but in one example of mis-matching with an Infidell: yet next to that what can be a fouler incongruity, a greater violence to the reverend secret of nature, then to force a mixture of minds that cannot unite, and to sowe the furrow of mans nativity with seed of two incoherent and uncombining dispositions; which act being kindly and voluntarie, as it ought, the Apostle in the language he wrote call’d Eunoia, and the Latines Benevolence, intimating the original therof to be in the understanding and the will;[...]

   1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

2. uncountablehuman sciencesA state of normal adult mental health.

   The author says if we translate this metopic or coronal curve into the language of psychology we have eunoia or prothymia.

   1899, Editorial Comment: "A New Faculty and its Localization", Medicine 5: 584

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   We can usually tell which baby at three months old will never reach even imbecility, which child at three will never reach morinoia, habits of life, which boy or girl at six or seven will be arrested in morinoia and not proceed into eunoia.

   1912, William Eastbrook Chancellor, "Temperment and the Education of Foreigners and of Their Children for American Citizenship", Educational Foundations 39 (1)