Eunoia

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Word Definition Language Tags Audio
moņ (моң) Sadness; melody; lyricism Bashkir adverse music
Filotimo A friend of honour, but it also implies dignity, pride, sacrifice and respect Greek character friends
Attaccabottone Something that you long to get away from but struggle to Italian adverse
Kairosclerosis A moment in which you realize that you're happy but simultaneously destroy that happiness by overthinking it English happiness reflection change
Pisan Zapra The time needed to eat a banana Malay time measurement food
Rubatosis The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat English physical health awareness
Mitonner Cooking with passion French food love 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
Kintsukuroi To repair with gold. Understanding that a piece is more beautiful for having broken. Japanese beauty change
Koi No Yokan The feeling upon meeting someone that falling in love with them is inevitable. Japanese love
Jafjafa (جفجفة) The sound of new clothes. Arabic attribute life
Packesel The person who’s stuck carrying everyone else’s bags on a trip German travel physical
Ukiyo The floating world - living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life Japanese creative visual art
Apapachar Pamper a person especially when she or he is sad Spanish action
Nakhur A camel that won't give milk until her nostrils have been tickled Persian nature
Nenna Not having the will to do something Icelandic energy strength
Dépaysement The feeling of being in an environment that you are not used to French feeling awareness change
Nementia Feeling nervous or anxious in your own skin English feeling adverse
Merienda It's something you eat between lunch and dinner (sandwich, fruit...). At 6pm or so. Kids never miss it. Spanish food event
Bayanihan Mutual cooperation; when a burden is shared together with a positive attitude with a sense of camaraderie, the burden feels lighter. Tagalog community positive
Sankocha The feeling of embarrassment due to receiving an inordinate or extravagent gift/favor, making you feel as though you need to return a favor that you can't Kannada feeling
Rückkehrunruhe The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness. German awareness time
Utura-utura (うつらうつら) To drift between sleep and wakefulness. Japanese event time phsyical
Rabharta A spring tide Irish nature
Gökotta To rise at dawn in order to go out and listen to the birds sing Swedish nature beauty
Kinkartvyavimudh Helplessness due to being duty-bound Hindi feeling
Onism The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits just one place at a time. English awareness reflection thinking
Wabi-sabi Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. Japanese beauty awareness
Tokka A large herd of reindeer Finnish nature
Stushevatsya To fade into the background Russian action




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