Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Consuegro | Father in law of your son | Spanish | family | |
Backpfeifengesicht | A face in need of a slap | German | physical funny | |
Razbliuto | The feeling for someone you used to love but no longer do | Russian | love change awareness | |
Voorpret | That feeling of excitement you get even before an event actually takes place. Literally translates to “pre-fun.” | Dutch | happiness feeling exciting | |
Formacja | A state of mind and its own culture of a generation | Polish | society change | |
Buksvåger | Literally means "abdomen brothers-in-law"; used for two men who have slept with the same woman | Swedish | physical | |
Lus | Desire, craving; greed; fancy, cupidity; inclination, tendency. | Afrikaans | adverse | |
Sokaiya | A man with a few shares in several companies who extorts money by threatening to come to the shareholders' meetings and cause trouble | Japanese | adverse | |
Qì (氣) | Lit. air, breath; ‘life force/energy’. | Chinese | health awareness | |
Shalom (שָׁלוֹם) | peace, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity; used also as a greeting/parting salutation. | Hebrew | positive | |
Haiku (俳句) | A form of Japanese poetry, usually just 17 syllables long (with lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables), involving the sudden juxtapositions of ideas or images, and often focused on natural (e.g., seasonal) phenomena. | Japanese | art | |
Anánkē (Ανάγκη) | destiny, fate, necessity. | Greek | awareness | |
Latah | Uncontrollable habit of saying embarrassing things | Indonesian | habits | |
Vorfreude | The joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures | German | time awareness happiness | |
poshlost (пошлость) | Used to describe situations where things are being sold under the premise "that the greatest joy can be bought" | Russian | adverse extreme | |
Queesting | Inviting a lover into your bed for some pillow talk | Dutch | love action event | |
Qarrtsiluni | Sitting together in the darkness, waiting for inspiration to strike you | Iñupiaq | awareness thinking reflection | |
Riposo | Rest, repose; a nap; cf. siesta. | Italian | event society | |
Frustfressen | Excessive eating because of frustration | German | food adverse habits | |
Oneirataxia | The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality | English | awareness feeling | |
Moriturism | The sudden reminder that you will one day no longer occupy this earth | English | awareness philosophy life | |
Épater les bourgeois | To shock the middle classes | French | society surprise extreme | |
tuḷir (துளிர்) | Technically "a baby leaf", but it specifcally means a freshness tenderness, delicateness | Tamil | attribute beauty | |
Nadryv | When a person releases intimate, deeply hidden feelings, sometimes that do not truly exist; imaginary, excessively exaggerated and distorted feelings | Russian | emotion extreme | |
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu | Favorably, please. | Japanese | positive | |
Boketto (ぼけっと) | gazing vacantly into the distance (without thought or sense of self). | Japanese | ||
Fucha | To use company time and resources for one's own purposes | Portuguese | work adverse | |
Weiche | Literal: "soft egg"; someone who is weak or cowardly | German | adverse attribute | |
Spannungsbogen | A sequence of events which build up suspense and/or tension | German | event exciting | |
Wú jí (無極) | Lit. without highest point, utmost point, ridgepole; ultimate, boundless, limitless; the primodial universe; original nature. | Chinese | measurement |
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