2. Noun. A person’s state of excellence characterized by objective flourishing across a lifetime, and brought about through the exercise of moral virtue, practical wisdom, and rationality. ¹
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Definition of Eudemonia
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Eudemonia
1. A feeling of well-being or happiness. Origin: eu-+ G. Daimon, destiny (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eudemonia
Literary usage of Eudemonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism by Barruel, Robert Clifford (1799)
"... the authors of the eudemonia not to make ufe of his name without an ab- ...
editors of the eudemonia, a journal printed at Franckfort on the Mein, ..."
2. Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism: A Translation from the by Robert Clifford (1799)
"... (if we may judge by their publication, the eudemonia, right genius) had ...
The eudemonia has ..."
3. Proofs of the Real Existence, and Dangerous Tendency, of Illuminism by Seth Payson (1802)
"... and a writer, who had left his name with the editors of the eudemonia, (a
Journal printed at Franckfort on the Main) to be ..."
4. A Classical Manual: Being a Mythological, Historical, and Geographical (1833)
"eudemonia. The goddess of felicity, to whom the Romans erected a temple ; s'ic
was represented seated on a throne, or as standing clothed in the ..."
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