Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erbsenzähler | Literally "a person who literally counts their peas"; someone who is nitpicky and always trying to make things perfect | German | attribute measurement extreme | |
| Desenrascar | An informal word that means the act of figuring out things | Portuguese | thinking growth | |
| Sielvartas | Literal translation as “soul tumbling” used as grief or resentment | Lithuanian | adverse thinking emotion | |
| Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits | |
| Chindogu | A person seemingly inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem, but are in fact nothing more than a useless gag | Japanese | creative funny | |
| (يقبرني) Ya'aburnee | A declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them. | Arabic | love connection fate | |
| Meraki | Describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — when you put “something of yourself” into what you're doing, whatever it may be. | Greek | emotion strength | |
| Mauri | The essence that animates something living, but not human | Māori | nature | |
| Gogo | It can mean desire, want, spirit or soul, but mainly it's a concept that explains the will of the soul. | Basque | feeling | |
| Tinga | Particles of food left between teeth | Tagalog | food physical | |
| 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 | |
| Shemomedjamo (შემომეჭამა) | To keep eating past the point of being full since the food tastes so good. | Georgian | food | |
| Oneirataxia | The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality | English | awareness feeling | |
| Papakata | To have one leg shorter than the other | Māori | physical | |
| Onism | The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits just one place at a time. | English | awareness reflection thinking | |
| 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 | |
| Jumpa | To jump from one floating piece of ice to another | Swedish | physical nature | |
| poshlost (пошлость) | Used to describe situations where things are being sold under the premise "that the greatest joy can be bought" | Russian | adverse extreme | |
| Koev li halev (כואב לי הלב) | Literally "my head hurts", but used to convey empathy for someone's suffering | Yiddish | empathy connection | |
| Wabi-sabi | Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. | Japanese | beauty awareness | |
| 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 | |
| Uitwaaien | To take a refreshing break outdoors in windy weather | Dutch | nature life beauty | |
| Kaapshljmurslis | The feeling of being cramped on public transportation | Latvian | stress physical | |
| Достолепие (dostolepiye) | Contains the roots for dosta (a lot) and lepota (beautiful) from Old Bulgarian language. The word literally means full of beauty but it is more like a combination of noble, full of values, beautiful and brave for man and femininity for women. It is very typical to use this word in context of old traditional photos of people where one appreciate the beauty of the past. | Bulgarian | beauty | |
| İmece | The gathering of many people and doing the work of one person | Turkish | community | |
| Resfeber | Travel fever/bug; the feeling of excitement and nervousness experienced by a traveller before undertaking a journey. | Swedish | travel physical | |
| Merienda | It's something you eat between lunch and dinner (sandwich, fruit...). At 6pm or so. Kids never miss it. | Spanish | food event | |
| Metanoia | The journey of changing ones mind, heart, self, or way of life | English | growth change | |
| Apapachar | Pamper a person especially when she or he is sad | Spanish | action | |
| Mbuki-mvuki | To shake off your clothes to dance more freely | Swahili | clothing music |
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