Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Abbiocco | The feeling of falling asleep after lunch or dinner | Italian | food feeling | |
Nepenthe | Something that helps you forget grief or suffering | Greek | growth strength | |
Erinmek | Not doing something you have to do just because you don’t want to; being a prick | Nogay | adverse | |
Gamchil | Korean word of Umami, best translated as "flavorful" and "tasty." Used often when describing a dish that achieves entirely new level of flavor by combining elements from ukegon, meaning land, sea and sky. | Korean | food taste | |
Yugen | A profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering. | Japanese | beauty awareness philosophy | |
Ubuntu | A quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity. | Zulu | beauty character awareness | |
Didis | To search and pick up lice from one's own hair, usually when in bed at night | Indonesian | physical adverse | |
Zuihitsu (随筆) | Literally, “running brush”. A genre of Japanese literature; authors write what’s top of mind and follow their random thoughts. The genre is more personal than performative and gives the reader an intimate look at the inner workings of the writer’s mind. | Japanese | writing creative | |
Consuegro | Father in law of your son | Spanish | family | |
Sóphrosuné (σωφροσύνη) | excellence of character and soundness of mind; leads to other beneficial qualities, such as moderation and self-control. | Greek | awareness | |
Koi No Yokan | The feeling upon meeting someone that falling in love with them is inevitable. | Japanese | love | |
Han | Sorrow, regret, grief, resentment, "a dull ache of the soul", yet passive and not revenge seeking; waiting for the injustice to be righted | Korean | society persistence adverse | |
Handschuhschneeballwerfer | A coward willing to criticize and abuse from a safe distance | German | adverse attribute interaction | |
Feierabend | End of the work day | German | event | |
Erkelmek | Teasing someone with repeating what they say | Nogay | interaction funny | |
Bildung | education, formation, acculturation, cultivation, development. | German | cultural | |
Énouement | The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self. | French | awareness philosophy | |
Magari | maybe, hopeful wish, wistful regret, in my dreams, if only. | Italian | thinking | |
Enxebre | Something pure and very authentic | Galician | positive attribute | |
Charmolypi | "Joy-making sorrow". A mixed feeling of happiness while being sad. | Greek | happiness adverse philosophy | |
Jijivisha | The strong, eternal desire to live and to continue living | Hindi | philosophy life awareness | |
Sphallolalia | Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere. | English | love life | |
Friluftsliv | “Free air life,” signifying a fundamental understanding of the positive impact of being in nature | Norwegian | nature health | |
Autophile | A person that loves solitude, being alone | English | character attribute | |
Metanoia | The journey of changing ones mind, heart, self, or way of life | English | growth change | |
Trennungsagentur | Literal: "separation agent"; A man hired by women to break the news to their boyfriends that they are breaking up | German | action | |
Anecdoche | A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening. | English | friends life | |
Livsnjutare | Someone who loves life deeply | Swedish | love life beauty | |
Dépayser | Disorientation; not necessarily unpleasant (e.g., a pleasant sense of strangeness from being in a foreign country). | French | change feeling | |
kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth |
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