The corpus record

χαυνότης

chaunotes · ἡ

porousness, sponginess

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Where it lives

Eudemian Ethics 2 · 0.77/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k

What it meant — LSJ

porousness, sponginess

porousness, sponginess, τῆς γῆς interpol. in X. Oec. 19.11; τάφρου Plu. Pyrrh. 28; of snow, Id. QConv. 2.649c; of foam, Fort. 99b.

2 looseness

looseness of a bandage, Gal(?). ap. Orib. 46.1.15.

II empty conceit, vanity

metaph., empty conceit, vanity, ἀνοήτου ψυχῆς Pl. Tht. 175b; opp. μεγαλοψυχία, Arist. EN 1107b23.

In the wild

χαυνότης · chaunotēs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 3
χαυνότητος · chaunotētos Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 3
χαυνότης · chaunotēs Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1107b (DIORISIS sentence 538)
χαυνότητος · chaunotētos Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1125a (DIORISIS sentence 1358)
χαυνότητα · chaunotēta Plato, Theaetetus 175
χαυνότητα · chaunotēta Xenophon, Economics 19.11 (DIORISIS sentence 873)

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