Eunoia

It comes from the Greek word εὔνοια, meaning "well mind" or "beautiful thinking."

It is also a rarely used medical term referring to a state of normal mental health.

In rhetoric, it is the goodwill between the author and the audience.


I can think of no more beautiful a word. I once met someone who thought beautifully; I have been forever changed. How fitting, that it is also a medical term for normal mental health. It has been my guiding light, a word-encapsulated concept that pulled me back to my senses. A word complete with name and face, even before I knew the term, what it was or what it meant. I find the concept has curative properties. Remember this word, Jason; take a breath, calm your heart, steel your mind. Remember, life has worth, for the living, for the living of life, if there are, if there can be, beautiful thoughts somewhere in somebody's mind.

And how apt that it also describes my relationship with you, dear reader. I forgot this word recently; it is a word to hold dear.