Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vergangenheitsbewältigung | Coping with the past | German | reflection growth | |
| Paasa | A person who leads someone on (intentionally or not). Appearing as if they are genuinely interested romantically when they aren’t | Tagalog | adverse interaction awareness | |
| Tizita (ትዝታ) | A bittersweet remembrance and longing for a time, person, thing gone by. | Amharic | time thinking | |
| Istories me arkoudes | Literal: 'stories with bears'; stories that are so crazy, they can't be true | Greek | extreme funny | |
| Papakata | To have one leg shorter than the other | Māori | physical | |
| Riposo | Rest, repose; a nap; cf. siesta. | Italian | event society | |
| Saper vivere | The ability to handle people and situations with charm, diplomacy and verve; cf. savior faire (French). | Italian | friends attribute | |
| Chutzpah | Insolence, cheek, audacity. Commonly used to describe someone when they have crossed the line of acceptable behavior | Yiddish | extreme | |
| Capricho | Work done with care in a way that surpass quality expectations. | Portuguese | work creative | |
| Onsay | Pretend to love | Boro | life | |
| 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 | |
| Koshatnik | A dealer in stolen cats | Russian | adverse character work | |
| Schilderwald | Jungle of traffic signs; a street so crowded with signs that you become lost | German | stress confusion | |
| Aesthete | Someone with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature | English | art beauty | |
| Listopad | The falling of the leaves | Russian | nature event | |
| Nonina | Andalusian expression of three negations to say yes but with a certain touch, as if wanting to mean that this is not even doubted. | Spanish | cultural | |
| Sonder | the realization that everyone has a life as vivid and complex as your own); coined by John Koenig. | English | philosophy awareness | |
| Sehnsucht | Thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alternative experiences. | German | philosophy reflection | |
| Schwärmerei | Excessive or extreme enthusiasm or sentimentality. | German | happiness | |
| Nenna | Not having the will to do something | Icelandic | energy strength | |
| Hammajang | "All messed up" | Hawaiian | adverse | |
| Skare | A thin layer of ice on top of snow | Swedish | physical nature | |
| Waldeinsamkeit | The feeling of solitude in the woods | German | nature beauty | |
| Hikikomori | Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement | Japanese | society | |
| Serendipity | The development of events by chance that result in a beneficial way | Tamil | event beauty life | |
| Kafkaesque | Having bizarre of illogical quality | English | attribute | |
| Friluftsliv | “Free air life,” signifying a fundamental understanding of the positive impact of being in nature | Norwegian | nature health | |
| Xíng qì (行氣) | Volitionally (e.g., mentally) circulating or directing qi. | Chinese | growth awareness strength | |
| chimak | Chicken and beer | Korean | food | |
| Fika | Drinking coffee along with eating something sweet | Swedish | food society |
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