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Definition of Eudaemonia

1. Noun. A contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous. "The town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles"

Definition of Eudaemonia

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of eudemonia) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eudaemonia

Literary usage of Eudaemonia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, George Sylvester Morris, Henry Boynton Smith, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1891)
"But what is this last something, in whose service the useful stands ? If eudaemonia, then it must be stated in what the essence of ..."

2. Christian Ethics by Adolf Wuttke, John Power Lacroix (1873)
"Happiness is only the one, the subjective phase, namely, the happiness- feeling that is connected with this " eudaemonia," whereas the "eudaemonia" itself ..."

3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1905)
"De eudaemonia, Arist. moralis disciplinae principio. Brandenb., 1858. Kaas, G. Die Lehre des Aristoteles von der Lust. Graz, 1878, pp. 46. ..."

4. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1881)
""eudaemonia JEHOVAH "—A REVIEW. BY AR GROTE. The describer of species has accomplished his task when he has given the proper Latin names, but it depends ..."

5. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"The second part consists of nine idyls: "eudaemonia"; "Nemesis"; "Voices of Hilltop"; "Waif of Rosendale"; "Pride and Providence"; "The Wranglers"; ..."

6. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"... eudaemonia and others, the hind wings are prolonged into very long tails, perhaps exceeding in length those of any other moths. FIo. 187. ..."

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