Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Ômä (өмә) | Collective helping | Bashkir | society positive | |
La douleur exquise | The pain that comes from wanting someone you can’t have | French | feeling awareness love | |
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 | |
Zechpreller | Someone who leaves without paying the bill. | German | adverse event friends | |
Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
Kenshō (見性) | Seeing (ken) one’s nature or essence (shō); perceiving one’s Buddha nature; sometimes interpreted as an initial or brief awakening. | Japanese | awareness growth | |
Zugzwang | To be forced to make a move even though it will likely to be at your disadvantage | German | action interaction philosophy | |
sobremesa | After-dinner conversation | Spanish | food friends | |
Dor | The heartbreak and sense of longing you feel because you’re separated from your love | Romanian | love adverse | |
Papakata | To have one leg shorter than the other | Māori | physical | |
Kokoro | A unity of mind and heart. | Japanese | awareness feeling | |
Sirimiri | Weak and constant rain; stronger than a mist but less than a shower. | Basque | weather physical | |
Tôpäj (төпәй) | Interjection that is used to forewarn a child of falling | Bashkir | action | |
Fika | Coffee and cake break with friends or colleagues | Swedish | food friends | |
Tartle | The act of hesitating while introducing someone because you've forgotten their name | Scottish | funny event friends | |
Luftmensch | Literal: "air person". Refers to someone who is a bit of a dreamer | Yiddish | attribute | |
Firgun (פירגון) | Ungrudging and overt (expressed) pride and happiness at other's successes. | Hebrew | happiness | |
Calacala | Children wading through water as they play | Tulu | family physical nature | |
Numinous | Describing an experience that makes you fearful yet fascinated, awed yet attracted - the powerful, personal feeling of being overwhelmed an inspired | English | beauty emotion | |
Friluftsliv | “Free air life,” signifying a fundamental understanding of the positive impact of being in nature | Norwegian | nature health | |
Sud’ba (судьба). | Fate, destiny, fortune | Russian | fate change life | |
Fernweh | To have a yearning to see distant places | German | travel thinking | |
Turnbeutelvergesser | Literally "sportsbag", but often used for a pupil that forgets their gym bag. | German | funny | |
Kertek | The sound of dry leaves or twigs being trodden underfoot | Malay | sound nature | |
Harkla | The little coughing noise one makes, often before giving a speech or dislodging a piece of cinnamon bun from their throat | Swedish | action | |
Dor | The heartbreak and sense of longing you feel because you’re separated from your love | Romanian | love adverse | |
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 | |
Iktsuarpok | The feeling of anticipation that leads you to keep looking outside to see if anyone is coming. | Inuktitut | awareness persistence feeling | |
Eesome | Pleasing to the eye | English | beauty | |
Ádvaita (अद्वैत) | non-dual; the notion that there is only one reality. | Sanskrit | measurement philosophy |
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