Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Voorpret | That feeling of excitement you get even before an event actually takes place. Literally translates to “pre-fun.” | Dutch | happiness feeling exciting | |
Ngaobera | A slight inflammation of the throat caused by screaming too much | Pascuense | adverse action health | |
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 | |
Hissikablelvuku | To sense something before it actually happens | Turkish | fate time | |
Anima | Soul; spirit; breath; mind | Latin | positive awareness | |
Bào fù xìng āo yè (報復性熬夜) | Revenge bedtime procrastination | Chinese | emotion | |
Ignōrāmus | Lit. ‘we do not know’ (e.g., the spirit of scientific enquiry), or ‘we take no notice of’ (used in legal contexts, e.g., when deemed evidence to be inadmissible). | Latin | philosophy growth | |
Frischluftfanatiker | literal translation: fresh air fanatic; referring to a person who tends to keep the windows open to get fresh air, even in winter or someone who always tries to be outside in the open air | German | nature | |
Üşenmek | To be too lazy to do something | Turkish | energy | |
Jafjafa (جفجفة) | The sound of new clothes. | Arabic | attribute life | |
Mensch | A person of integrity and honour | Yiddish | character attribute | |
Verpeilt | Regularly forgetting things and not being in the present moment enough to organize your life properly | German | adverse awareness | |
Exulansis | The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. | English | emotion thinking | |
Mulaltsag | From a von Neumann biography: "It is not a party, it is not a feast, it is not even an orgy; it is simply the spontaneous combustion of a bunch of people having a good time." | Hungarian | exciting community | |
Amaeru | To seek affection through doing things like clinging or pleading | Japanese | persistence | |
Zechpreller | A person who leaves a restaurant without paying | German | adverse action food | |
Chamcha | Literally: spoon, someone who sucks up to someone else or seeks another's approval constantly | Hindi | negative character | |
Noroke | To brag about or sing the praises of the person you love | Japanese | love emotion | |
Autophile | A person that loves solitude, being alone | English | character attribute | |
Meraki | Describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — when you put “something of yourself” into what you're doing, whatever it may be. | Greek | emotion strength | |
Bixomets | Shame on behalf of others | Catalan | feeling adverse | |
Fika | Coffee and cake break with friends or colleagues | Swedish | food friends | |
Myötähäpeä | Secondhand embarrassment | Finnish | adverse feeling | |
Hoppilandkalle | Guy who jumps to dry land to moor a boat | Swedish | action | |
Livsnjutare | Someone who loves life deeply | Swedish | love life beauty | |
Épater les bourgeois | To shock the middle classes | French | society surprise extreme | |
Zhì (智) | Wisdom, perspicacity, knowledge. | Chinese | thinking awareness | |
Cavoli riscaldati | Literally "reheated cabbage"; When you attempt to start up a failed relationship or love affair | Italian | love event persistence | |
Zažitjsja (зажиться) | To keep living beyond the point where one feels they would be better off dead | Russian | death adverse | |
cāral (சாரல்) | A gentle secondary drizzle either from a waterfall or rain | Tamil | nature |
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