Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Jijivisha | The strong, eternal desire to live and to continue living | Hindi | philosophy life awareness | |
Firgun (פירגון) | Ungrudging and overt (expressed) pride and happiness at other's successes. | Hebrew | happiness | |
Ḥôjônsô (һөйөнсө) | Good news for which a reward is given | Bashkir | positive event | |
Schnapsidee | An idea you have when you're drunk and will probably not considered anymore once you're sober | German | thinking change | |
Adronitis | Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone | English | friends connection | |
Eldsjäl | This noun is literally ‘fire-soul’, but the actual meaning is ‘enthusiast’ or ‘driving spirit’. | Swedish | strength | |
Obhimaan (অভিমান ) | Anger, or something close to it, at being upset with a loved one. Abhiman is not anger or sorrow. It is a temporary expression of a feeling about a loved one that he or she is supposed to address. | Bengali | adverse feeling | |
Dor | The heartbreak and sense of longing you feel because you’re separated from your love | Romanian | love adverse | |
Gambiarra | A very poor or ugly but effective solution for a problem; to use improvised methods / solutions to solve a problem, with any avaiable material | Portuguese | creative | |
Rubatosis | The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat | English | physical health awareness | |
Onsay | Pretend to love | Boro | life | |
Anima | Soul; spirit; breath; mind | Latin | positive awareness | |
Nekojita (ねこじた) | Literally "cat's tongue"; a person who is sensitive to hot food and especially hot drinks | Japanese | food attribute | |
Hikikomori | When a young person who is obsessed with TV, video games, and the internet, withdraws from society | Japanese | habits society | |
Kram | The quality of snow that makes it moldable so that one make snow balls and snowmen. | Norwegian | nature attribute | |
Poka-Yoke | Any mechanism in any process that helps an equipment operator avoid (yokeru) mistakes (poka) | Japanese | work process | |
Jouska | A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head | English | thinking | |
Desus | The quiet, smooth sound of somebody farting although not very loudly | Indonesian | sound funny action | |
Verschlimmbessern | Literally "worsen better"; making something worse while trying to improve it | German | action | |
Aesthete | Someone with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature | English | art beauty | |
Querencia | A place from which one's strength is drawn, where one feels at home, the place where you are your most authentic self | Spanish | strength happiness character | |
Andria (ανδρεία) | Both valour and courage, expressed in actions in front of the face of danger | Greek | strength character | |
Fingerspitzengefühl | Literal: “finger tips feeling", but means an intuitive feel or to have one's finger on the pulse | German | feeling | |
Rehepaplus | A kind of entrepreneurialism that mustn't always have the moral high ground. Clever, sometimes at the expense of others and their stupidity. The word can be used as both a positive (quick thinker) as a negative (scammer). | Estonian | character attribute | |
Salām (سلام) | Peace, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity; used also as a greeting/parting salutation. | Arabic | positive | |
Solvegg | Literally means sun wall; to find a sunny spot during winter time where you can sit down and enjoy the warmth of the sun | Norwegian | feeling nature | |
Sóphrosuné (σωφροσύνη) | excellence of character and soundness of mind; leads to other beneficial qualities, such as moderation and self-control. | Greek | awareness | |
Nehrotit to | Literal: “Not to make X into a sharp point"; a choice not to stress about something | Czech | stress happiness | |
Verschlimmbesserung | An attempt at improvement that makes things worse than they already were | German | adverse | |
En plein air | Outdoors; in the open air. | French | nature physical |
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