Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Lítost | Sate of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery. | Czech | adverse awareness fate | |
Mudita | The pleasure that comes from delighting in other people's well-being or happiness | Sanskrit | happiness positive empathy | |
Qì zhì (氣质) | Quality of character, disposition, style, charm, attractiveness, magnetism. | Chinese | attribute positive | |
Packesel | The person who’s stuck carrying everyone else’s bags on a trip | German | travel physical | |
Liberosis | The desire to care less about things. | English | thinking awareness | |
Guddle | To fish using the hands, by searching under stones at a river bank | Scottish | action nature | |
Boketto | The act of gazing vacantly into the distance. | Japanese | thinking | |
Desir | The sound of sand driven by the wind | Malay | sound nature | |
Weemoed | Lit. sadness, woe (wee) courage, daring, mood (moed); soft mood; light melancholy; having the strength to overcome a feeling of sorrow (e.g., arising in relation to nostalgia). | Dutch | adverse growth | |
L’chaim (לְחַיִּים) | Lit. ‘to life’. | Hebrew | life | |
Rabenmutter | A bad mom ("raven mother") | German | family society adverse | |
Gula | Gluttony, greed; indulgence; eating simply for the taste (i.e., not from hunger). | Spanish | adverse | |
Shalom (שָׁלוֹם) | peace, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity; used also as a greeting/parting salutation. | Hebrew | positive | |
Bào fù xìng āo yè (報復性熬夜) | Revenge bedtime procrastination | Chinese | emotion | |
Tsundoku | Acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them | Japanese | adverse | |
Półtora | Specific word for one and a half of something | Polish | measurement | |
Klexos | the art of dwelling on the past; coined by John Koenig. | English | thinking | |
kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
Avspasere | To take a day (or more) off from work (e.g., because one has previously worked overtime and has built up credit). | Norwegian | society time | |
Badkruka | Someone who refuses to enter a body of water. Eg. Get in the lake you badkruka, or am I going to have to pull you in by your beard? | Swedish | funny nature explore | |
Eunoia | A well-mind; beautiful thinking | Greek | beauty | |
Talkoot | a collectively pursued/undertaken task; voluntary community work. | Finnish | event society | |
Wú jí (無極) | Lit. without highest point, utmost point, ridgepole; ultimate, boundless, limitless; the primodial universe; original nature. | Chinese | measurement | |
Être dépaysé | To be in an environment you're not used to | French | change society awareness | |
Vergangenheitsbewältigung | Coping with the past | German | reflection growth | |
Chingada | An imaginary, horrible place where you send all those who annoy you | Spanish | funny adverse character | |
Uzsonna | A meal between lunch and dinner | Hungarian | food time | |
Ćeif | A slow and silent enjoyment in someone or in something | Bosnian | positive feeling | |
Fanaa (فناء) | Used in a romantic, and spiritual sense. It could also mean breaking free, escaping ego, dying while your material body hasn’t | Urdu | fate love | |
Tretår | A second refill or “threefill” of coffee | Swedish | measurement food |
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