Definition of Eudaemonic

1. Adjective. Producing happiness and well-being.

Exact synonyms: Eudemonic
Derivative terms: Eudaemon, Eudemon
Partainyms: Eudemonism, Eudemonism

Definition of Eudaemonic

1. Adjective. of or pertaining to a eudaemon ¹

2. Adjective. producing happiness and well-being ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eudaemonic

eucolloid
eucopepoda
eucorticalism
eucrasia
eucrasy
eucrite
eucrites
eucritic
eucryptite
eucryptites
euctical
eucupine
eucyclic
eudaemon
eudaemonia
eudaemonic (current term)
eudaemonism
eudaemonisms
eudaemonist
eudaemonistic
eudaemonists
eudaemons
eudaimon
eudaimonia
eudaimonism
eudaimonisms
eudaimons
eudemon
eudemonia
eudemonias

Literary usage of Eudaemonic

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

1. The Ethics of the Christian Life by Theodor Häring (1909)
"For not only are the value-feelings themselves of various value, which the advocates of eudaemonic ethics allow, and name moral only certain definite value- ..."

2. A Treatise on the Moral Ideals by John Grote (1876)
"And in reality, whenever, in eudaemonic investigation, the notion comes in, as it must do, that it is a matter of duty with us to live not for passing ..."

3. Library of Universal History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the by Israel Smith Clare (1897)
"In the Tao-te-king, the element afterwards expands in the system of utilitarian and eudaemonic ethics in the Book of Rewards and Punishments. ..."

4. Library of World History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the (1914)
"In the Tao-te-king the element afterwards expands in the system of utilitarian and eudaemonic ethics in the Book of Rewards and Punishments. ..."

5. The Impact of Chaos on Science and Society by Celso Grebogi, James A. Yorke (1997)
"A more colourful (and earlier) example is described in The eudaemonic Pie [5], in which, by making a series of measurements with the aid of a computer ..."

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