Definitions

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  • noun A state of pleasant well-being.
  • noun A person’s state of excellence characterized by objective flourishing across a lifetime, and brought about through the exercise of moral virtue, practical wisdom, and rationality.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek εὐδαιμονία (eudaimonia), from eu (“good” or “well being”) and “daimōn” (“spirit” or “minor deity”, used by extension to mean one’s lot or fortune)

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Examples

  • He called it "eudemonia," that living a flourishing life.

    CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2005 2005

  • And if design can increase positive emotion, eudemonia, and flow, and meaning, what we're all doing together will be become good enough.

    Martin Seligman on positive psychology Martin Seligman 2004

  • If entertainment can be diverted to also increase positive emotion, meaning, eudemonia, it will be good enough.

    Martin Seligman on positive psychology Martin Seligman 2004

  • And meaning in this view consists of -- very parallel to eudemonia, it consists of knowing what your highest strengths are, and using them to belong to and in the service of something larger than you are.

    Martin Seligman on positive psychology Martin Seligman 2004

  • And if design can increase positive emotion, eudemonia, and flow, and meaning, what we're all doing together will be become good enough.

    Martin Seligman on positive psychology Martin Seligman 2004

  • If entertainment can be diverted to also increase positive emotion, meaning, eudemonia, it will be good enough.

    Martin Seligman on positive psychology Martin Seligman 2004

  • And meaning in this view consists of -- very parallel to eudemonia, it consists of knowing what your highest strengths are, and using them to belong to and in the service of something larger than you are.

    Martin Seligman on positive psychology Martin Seligman 2004

  • If entertainment can be diverted to also increase positive emotion, meaning, eudemonia, it will be good enough.

    Martin Seligman on positive psychology Martin Seligman 2004

  • And if design can increase positive emotion, eudemonia, and flow, and meaning, what we're all doing together will be become good enough.

    Martin Seligman on positive psychology Martin Seligman 2004

  • And meaning in this view consists of -- very parallel to eudemonia, it consists of knowing what your highest strengths are, and using them to belong to and in the service of something larger than you are.

    Martin Seligman on positive psychology Martin Seligman 2004

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