euthymia

/ juːˈθɪmɪə /

noun

1. psychol a pleasant state of mind

Word History and Origins

Origin of euthymia¹

_eu- + _-thymia

Example Sentences

Tolerantiæ: & propellit Affectus, hostes Euthymiæ gladio, 5.

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He was a native of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, as we learn from an allusion in his poem Euthymiæ Raptus or The Teares of Peace, and from W. Browne's reference to him in Britannia's Pastorals as "the learned shepheard of faire Hitching Hill."

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We must recognize in each virtue its own positive excellence and follow its positive ideal, and the ideal of self-restraint is to keep our mind level—as our expression is—or, to borrow a Greek term, attain the state of euthymia, which Democritus called the highest good.

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