Eunoia

Quick meaning: Eunoia is a noun meaning (rhetoric) Goodwill towards an audience, either perceived or real; the perception that the speaker has the audience's interest at heart.

Meaning

(rhetoric) Goodwill towards an audience, either perceived or real; the perception that the speaker has the audience's interest at heart.

More Meanings

1. (medicine, psychology) A state of normal adult mental health.

Example Sentences

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

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."

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.

Related Words

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