Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Aesthete | Someone with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature | English | art beauty | |
Seny | Common sense, is a form of ancestral Catalan wisdom or sensibleness. It involves well-pondered perception of situations, level-headedness, awareness, integrity, and right action | Catalan | positive character | |
Bixomets | Shame on behalf of others | Catalan | feeling adverse | |
Tempus fugit | Time flies, flees, escapes. | Latin | time | |
Mauri | The essence that animates something living, but not human | Māori | nature | |
Jugaad (जुगाड) | the ability to 'make do' or 'get by'. | Hindi | life | |
Commuovere | "Heartwarming,” but specifically refers to a story that moved you to tears | Italian | beauty interaction emotion | |
Jijivisha | The strong, eternal desire to live and to continue living | Hindi | philosophy life awareness | |
Oneirataxia | The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality | English | awareness feeling | |
Tuerto | A man with only one eye | Spanish | physical | |
Être dépaysé | To be in an environment you're not used to | French | change society awareness | |
Magari | maybe, hopeful wish, wistful regret, in my dreams, if only. | Italian | thinking | |
Charmolypi | "Joy-making sorrow". A mixed feeling of happiness while being sad. | Greek | happiness adverse philosophy | |
Capoclaque | Someone who co-ordinates a group of clappers. | Italian | society attribute | |
Dadirri | Inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness out of respect. | Ngangiwumirr | awareness | |
O ka la nokonoko | A day spent in nervous anticipation of a coughing spell | Hawaiian | thinking health stress | |
Shemomedjamo (შემომეჭამა) | To keep eating past the point of being full since the food tastes so good. | Georgian | food | |
Lagom | Not too much and not too little | Swedish | measurement | |
Crapoter | verb. To not take a lungful of a cigarette. | French | health action society | |
Wú (無) | Negative, void, nothingness, non-being; can imply 'neither yes nor no'. | Chinese | adverse | |
Biritululo | The act of comparing yams to settle a dispute | Kiriwani | food thinking | |
Pomicione | A man who seizes any chance of being in close contact with a woman | Italian | attribute | |
Gretchenfrage | A direct question with the intention of unveiling the underlying thoughts of the person being questioned | German | awareness connection | |
Latah | Uncontrollable habit of saying embarrassing things | Indonesian | habits | |
mångata | The roadlike reflection of moonlight on water | Swedish | nature beauty | |
Tampo | Behaviour in which a person withdraws his or her affection or cheerfulness from a person who has hurt his or her feelings; when you're disappointed with someone yet do not express it directly | Tagalog | adverse emotion | |
Dhurna | Extorting payment from someone by sitting at their front door and staying there until you get paid | Hindi | action persistence | |
Chindogu | A person seemingly inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem, but are in fact nothing more than a useless gag | Japanese | creative funny | |
Þetta reddast | it will all work out ok' (used especially when things don't look optimistic!). | Icelandic | fate | |
Kokoro | A unity of mind and heart. | Japanese | awareness feeling |
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