Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanyauku | To walk on tiptoes across a hot surface | Rukwangali | physical action | |
| Rocambolesco | Stunning action that requires extreme audacity; literally means "there's no need" as in "there's no need to thank you" | Italian | extreme surprise | |
| Bilita Mpash | Opposite of a nightmare | Bantu | positive event | |
| Trepverter | A witty comeback you think of only when it’s too late to use | Yiddish | funny life | |
| Consuegro | Father in law of your son | Spanish | family | |
| Schwärmerei | Excessive or extreme enthusiasm or sentimentality. | German | happiness | |
| Abhayamudrâ (अभय मुद्रा) | The gesture (e.g., in Hindu and Buddhist iconography) of fearlessness, protection, and/or peace; involves the palms facing outwards, and the fingers extending upwards. | Sanskrit | strength | |
| Psithurism | The sound of wind through trees | English | nature beauty | |
| Nodus tollens | The realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore. | English | philosophy awareness life | |
| Dhurna | Extorting payment from someone by sitting at their front door and staying there until you get paid | Hindi | action persistence | |
| Kæk | Spirited, bold, cheeky, cocky. | Danish | attribute | |
| sobremesa | After-dinner conversation | Spanish | food friends | |
| Ser/Estar | The verb 'to be' is two different verbs in Spanish. Ser is 'what you are' and estar is 'how you are/where you are' | Spanish | attribute | |
| Yaqin (يقين) | Certitude and freedom from doubt. | Arabic | feeling awareness | |
| Myötähäpeä | Secondhand embarrassment | Finnish | adverse feeling | |
| Sielvartas | Literal translation as “soul tumbling” used as grief or resentment | Lithuanian | adverse thinking emotion | |
| Mamihlapinatapai | A look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin | Yaghan | love feeling | |
| Vipāka (विपाक) | Ripening; the result, ripening or maturation of karma. | Sanskrit | growth | |
| Pomicione | A man who seizes any chance of being in close contact with a woman | Italian | attribute | |
| Kucir | A tuft of hair left to grow on top of an otherwise bald head | Indonesian | physical change | |
| Estrenar | The experience of wearing something for the first time | Spanish | life | |
| Vemödalen | The fear that everything has already been done. For example: the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist. | English | philosophy awareness art | |
| Débrouillardise | Quality of someone who is resourceful and lives with the ability to creatively improvise; someone who can make do and solve problems without much | French | creative | |
| Overskud | Extra/excess energy; do have sufficient resources to do something; profit (in an economic context). | Danish | attribute | |
| Flâner | verb. to purposely wander, to decide to explore with no final destination. | French | explore travel | |
| Chaval al hazman (חבל אל הזמן) | Literally "shame on time"; referring to an amazing experience that you don't want to end | Hebrew | beauty happiness time | |
| Anima | Soul; spirit; breath; mind | Latin | positive awareness | |
| kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
| Capoclaque | Someone who co-ordinates a group of clappers. | Italian | society attribute | |
| Anteayer | The day before yesteraday | Spanish | measurement |
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