Eunoia is the shortest English word containing all five main vowel graphemes. It comes from the Greek word e????a, meaning 'well mind' or 'beautiful thinking.' It is also a rarely used medical term referring to a state of normal mental health.


In rhetoric, eunoia is the goodwill a speaker cultivates between himself and his audience, a condition of receptivity.In book eight of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle uses the term to refer to the kind and benevolent feelings of goodwill a spouse has which form the basis for the ethical foundation of human life.Cicero translates eunoia with the Latin word benevolentia