Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Onsay | Pretend to love | Boro | life | |
Házisárkány | Literally "indoor dragon"; a nagging restless spouse | Hungarian | family stress adverse | |
Volta | During certain hours of the early evening, around dusk, everyone in the town who might feel like going for a walk takes a saunter or stroll up and down the main street | Greek | time physical nature | |
Zhaghzhagh | The chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage | Tamil | adverse action physical | |
Carpe Diem | Make the most of the present moment or opportunity. Lit. sieze the day. | Latin | positive | |
Unglücksrabe | An unlucky person (literally: Raven with bad luck) | German | luck adverse | |
Bào fù xìng āo yè (報復性熬夜) | Revenge bedtime procrastination | Chinese | emotion | |
Koev li halev (כואב לי הלב) | Literally "my head hurts", but used to convey empathy for someone's suffering | Yiddish | empathy connection | |
Qì zhì (氣质) | Quality of character, disposition, style, charm, attractiveness, magnetism. | Chinese | attribute positive | |
Tokimeki ときめき | Excitement; Feeling of bliss or joy from a discrete experience | Japanese | emotion feeling happiness | |
Kintsukuroi | To repair with gold. Understanding that a piece is more beautiful for having broken. | Japanese | beauty change | |
Mahj | Looking beautiful after having a disease | Persian | beauty change | |
Crapoter | verb. To not take a lungful of a cigarette. | French | health action society | |
Þetta reddast | it will all work out ok' (used especially when things don't look optimistic!). | Icelandic | fate | |
Yuputka | A word made for walking in the woods at night, it’s the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin | Ulwa | nature adverse | |
Dhurna | Extorting payment from someone by sitting at their front door and staying there until you get paid | Hindi | action persistence | |
Beau geste | A gesture noble in its nature or intention but ultimately meaningless in substance | French | action | |
Erbsenzähler | Literally "a person who literally counts their peas"; someone who is nitpicky and always trying to make things perfect | German | attribute measurement extreme | |
Ǩuẓlanyu | To marry a divorced woman | Bashkir | family attribute | |
Bimyou | Not bad, or "meh" | Japanese | attribute | |
Abquatulate | To leave without saying goodbye | English | action | |
arumpu (அரும்பு) | A bud, but specifically referring to the stage where it is just starting to bud | Tamil | nature | |
Pelinti | To move hot food around in your mouth | Buli | food | |
Oxymoron | Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | English | attribute confusion | |
Guān xì (關係) | Cultivating relationships; reciprocal connections; networking; social karma. | Chinese | society friends | |
Mahalo | Thankfulness, appreciation, and gratitude as a way of living | Hawaiian | positive | |
Zechpreller | A person who leaves a restaurant without paying | German | adverse action food | |
Tempus fugit | Time flies, flees, escapes. | Latin | time | |
Dépayser | Disorientation; not necessarily unpleasant (e.g., a pleasant sense of strangeness from being in a foreign country). | French | change feeling | |
Seigneur-terrasse | Someone who spends time, but not money, at a café | French | funny life |
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