Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Shalom (שָׁלוֹם) | peace, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity; used also as a greeting/parting salutation. | Hebrew | positive | |
Athazagoraphobia | The fear of forgetting, being forgotten or ignored, or being replaced | English | reflection thinking | |
Merienda | It's something you eat between lunch and dinner (sandwich, fruit...). At 6pm or so. Kids never miss it. | Spanish | food event | |
Neko-neko | Someone that has a novel idea that only makes things worse | Indonesian | funny creative | |
Trepverter | A witty comeback you think of only when it’s too late to use | Yiddish | funny life | |
Sonder | the realization that everyone has a life as vivid and complex as your own); coined by John Koenig. | English | philosophy awareness | |
Ǩuẓlanyu | To marry a divorced woman | Bashkir | family attribute | |
Épater les bourgeois | To shock the middle classes | French | society surprise extreme | |
Solkatt | The glimmer that reflects the sunshine off a wristwatch | Swedish | physical beauty | |
Ludus | playful love between children or casual lovers | Greek | love | |
Noroke | To brag about or sing the praises of the person you love | Japanese | love emotion | |
Vybafnout | To jump out and say "boo" | Czech | action funny surprise | |
Subhiya | Morning coffee, gossip and chat with neighbors after housewives have sent their children to school | Arabic | community connection | |
Yaqin (يقين) | Certitude and freedom from doubt. | Arabic | feeling awareness | |
Weltschmerz | Feeling hopeless about the state our world is currently in ("world pain") | German | adverse society | |
Chrysalism | An amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm. | English | nature beauty | |
Gogo | It can mean desire, want, spirit or soul, but mainly it's a concept that explains the will of the soul. | Basque | feeling | |
Kusukusu | The suppressed giggling and tittering of a group of women | Japanese | sound friends funny | |
Aesthete | Someone with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature | English | art beauty | |
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 | |
Verpeilt | Regularly forgetting things and not being in the present moment enough to organize your life properly | German | adverse awareness | |
Kuuki Yomenai | "Cannot read the air” and jokingly applies to people who struggle to read social situations | Japanese | connection confusion | |
Halyava (Халява) | Getting something without working for it | Russian | luck positive work | |
Vabba | To be at home with the kids | Swedish | family | |
Shemomedjamo (შემომეჭამა) | To keep eating past the point of being full since the food tastes so good. | Georgian | food | |
Tretår | A second refill or “threefill” of coffee | Swedish | measurement food | |
Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
Fachidiot | Someone who knows a great deal about a very narrow subject | German | thinking attribute | |
Kucir | A tuft of hair left to grow on top of an otherwise bald head | Indonesian | physical change | |
Bababa ba? | Is it going down? (In the context of an elevator) | Tagalog | action |
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