Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talkoot | a collectively pursued/undertaken task; voluntary community work. | Finnish | event society | |
| Schnapsidee | An idea so stupid the person must have thought of it while drunk | German | funny thinking creative | |
| Shinrin-yoku (森林浴) | bathing' in the forest (literally and/or metaphorically). | Japanese | nature event | |
| Startijenn | A kickstart/boost of energy; also denotes perseverance. | Breton | strength | |
| Sokaiya | A man with a few shares in several companies who extorts money by threatening to come to the shareholders' meetings and cause trouble | Japanese | adverse | |
| Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
| Pretoogjes | Lit. 'fun eyes'; the twinkling eyes of someone engaging in benign mischief or fun. | Dutch | attribute phsyical | |
| Cúbóg | A collection of Easter eggs | Irish | physical | |
| Ikigai | A reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning. | Japanese | growth happiness | |
| Handschuhschneeballwerfer | A person who wears gloves to throw snowballs; a wimp | German | action attribute | |
| La douleur exquise | The pain that comes from wanting someone you can’t have | French | feeling awareness love | |
| Uffda | A sympathetic word to be used when someone else is in pain. It combines ‘Ouch for you’ and ‘Oh, I’m sorry you hurt yourself’ | Norwegian | empathy emotion awareness | |
| Otium | The condition of being in control of one’s own time; leisure, free-time; ease, peace. | Latin | growth time habits | |
| Nutro (Нутро) | Something that governs your inner being; your core | Russian | strength character | |
| Oodal | Overly exaggerated, fake anger that follows a lovers’ quarrel | Tamil | love event feeling | |
| Janteloven | Jante’s law; a set of social codes or norms that emphasize the importance of collective success rather than individual | Norwegian | society positive interaction | |
| Rire dans sa barbe | To laugh in your beard quietly while thinking about something that has happened | French | funny reflection action | |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine | The longest word in Turkish, meaning, ‘It's as though you are from those whom we may not be able to easily make into a maker of unsucessful ones.’ | Turkish | attribute | |
| Boketto | The act of gazing vacantly into the distance. | Japanese | thinking | |
| Rén (仁) | Humanity, benevolence; the positive feeling enjoyed by a virtuous person through altruistic behaviour. | Chinese | positive | |
| Kafkaesque | Having bizarre of illogical quality | English | attribute | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction | |
| Redamancy | The act of loving the one who loves you; a returned love in full | English | love emotion | |
| Salām (سلام) | Peace, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity; used also as a greeting/parting salutation. | Arabic | positive | |
| Torschlusspanik | The fear that time is running out on achieving life goals | German | growth awareness | |
| Ilunga | The capacity to forgive once, tolerate a second time, but never a third time. Conveys the progression toward intolerance. | Tshiluba | growth emotion reflection | |
| Ennui | A feeling of being bored and mentally tired caused by having nothing interesting or exciting to do | English | adverse feeling | |
| Aka'aka'a | Skin peeling or falling off after either sunburn or heavy drinking | Hawaiian | physical adverse |
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