{{Short description|Component of rhetoric}} {{Italic title}} {{About||the book by Christian Bök|Eunoia (book)|the school|Eunoia Junior College}} {{Rhetoric}} In rhetoric, '''''eunoia''''' ({{langx|grc|εὔνοιᾰ|eúnoia|well mind; beautiful thinking}})<ref name="BBC2008">{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7697000/7697762.stm|title=Beautiful vowels|work=Today (BBC Radio 4)|date=30 October 2008 |publisher=BBC|quote=Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thought". It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.}}</ref> is the good will that speakers cultivate between themselves and their audiences, a condition of receptivity.<ref name="Garver1994">{{cite book|isbn=9780226284255|title=Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character|last=Garver|first=Eugene|location=Chicago|publisher=University of Chicago Press|date=1994|page=112}}</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>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mun.ca/animus/2001vol6/provencal6.htm |title=The Family In Aristotle<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2017-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029191658/http://www.mun.ca/animus/2001vol6/provencal6.htm |archive-date=2013-10-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Cicero translates {{lang|grc|εὔνοιᾰ}} with the Latin word {{lang|la|benevolentia}}.<ref>Gloria Vivenza, "Classical Roots of Benevolence in Economic Thought," ''Ancient Economic Thought'' (Routledge, 1997) pp. 198–199, 204–208 [https://books.google.com/books?id=OKxA6ibIQcYC&dq=benevolentia&pg=PA205 online]; Cicero's influence on patristic usage, Carolinne White, ''Christian Friendship in the Fourth Century'' (Cambridge University Press, 1992, 2002), pp. 16–17 [https://books.google.com/books?id=cqv_UlNH-qIC&dq=benevolentia&pg=RA1-PA16 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>[http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?eunoia 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>{{cite web |url=https://invalids.bandcamp.com/album/eunoia-2 |last=Davis |first=Pete |work=Bandcamp |title=Invalids discography |date=2012 |accessdate=2 January 2019}}</ref> *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>[http://mothership.sg/2015/12/theres-going-to-be-a-new-junior-college-called-eunoia-heres-how-to-pronounce-it/ There’s going to be a new junior college called Eunoia; here’s how to pronounce it]</ref> including memes referencing Singlish homophones.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sgag.sg/posts/what-kinda-weird-school-name-is-this-la-sial |title=What kinda weird school name is this la sial?! |access-date=2015-12-29 |archive-date=2016-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104171630/http://sgag.sg/posts/what-kinda-weird-school-name-is-this-la-sial |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 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>[https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=7immjYd24Tc 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> [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MVjQIQGqNFM&feature=youtu.be Billlie | 'EUNOIA' M/V]</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=March 2023}} * In 2024, Japanese band Envy announced the release of their 8th album, 'Eunoia'.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/C9kslKmCh6Y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== ENVY - EUNOIA]</ref>
==See also== *Iouea, a similarly short word with all the vowels.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Wiktionary-inline}}
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