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megalopsychos

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Aristotle’s “great-souled man”: an aristocratic paragon who embodies the virtues to an exceptional degree (a figure described chiefly in Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics).

Word forms

megalopsychos megalopsychoi megalopsuchos megalopsukhos megalopsychus megalopsykhos

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek μεγᾰλόψῡχος (megălópsūkhos, “great-souled man”, “magnanimous one”), from μεγᾰς (megăs, “great”) + ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “mind”, “spirit”, “soul”).

Related words

megalopsychia megalopsychy
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