euthymia

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A study lends its owner, its privileged reader, what Seneca called euthymia, a Greek word which Seneca explained means "well-being of soul," and which he translated as "tranquillitas."

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  1. Philosophical cheerfulness and calm; the avoidance of disturbing passions, as inculcated by Democritus and Epicurus.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek εὐθυμία, a composed condition of mind, tranquillity, from εὐ, well, + θυμός, mind.
 

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