Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desvelarse | To wake up in the middle of the night. Be unable to fall asleep. | Spanish | event adverse | |
| Hikikomori | When a young person who is obsessed with TV, video games, and the internet, withdraws from society | Japanese | habits society | |
| Vozdukh (Воздух) | "Air" but also "the stack of spirit". To breathe in is to "take the spirit inside". | Russian | beauty physical | |
| Handschuhschneeballwerfer | A coward willing to criticize and abuse from a safe distance | German | adverse attribute interaction | |
| Uitwaaien | To take a refreshing break outdoors in windy weather | Dutch | nature life beauty | |
| Minestra riscaldata | Literally "heated soup"; something done again but never as good as the first time it happened. Alternative to cavoli riscaldati (heated cabbage) | Italian | attribute | |
| Kweesten | Inviting a lover into your bed for some pillow talk | Dutch | love action event | |
| Shibui | Old school cool | Japanese | attribute | |
| Ubuntu | A quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity. | Zulu | beauty character awareness | |
| Kuebiko | A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence | Japanese | adverse feeling | |
| L’chaim (לְחַיִּים) | Lit. ‘to life’. | Hebrew | life | |
| Papakata | To have one leg shorter than the other | Māori | physical | |
| Ḥôjônsô (һөйөнсө) | Good news for which a reward is given | Bashkir | positive event | |
| Beau geste | A gesture noble in its nature or intention but ultimately meaningless in substance | French | action | |
| Scrumping | Stealing fruit (particularly apples) from trees | English | food action | |
| Zhaghzhagh | The chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage | Tamil | adverse action physical | |
| Hikikomori | Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement | Japanese | society | |
| Hanyauku | To walk on tiptoes across a hot surface | Rukwangali | physical action | |
| Titip | To temporarily entrust something to a person | Indonesian | trust | |
| Mencolek | The trick when you tap someone lightly on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them | Indonesian | funny friends action | |
| Kabelsalat | Tangled up cables; literally “cable-salad" | German | funny physical | |
| poshlost (пошлость) | Used to describe situations where things are being sold under the premise "that the greatest joy can be bought" | Russian | adverse extreme | |
| desenrascanço | the ability to find improvised solutions to problems | Portuguese | strength attribute life | |
| Packesel | The person who’s stuck carrying everyone else’s bags on a trip | German | travel physical | |
| Lieko | A tree trunk that has fallen to the bottom of a lake | Finnish | nature | |
| Fremdschämen | To be embarrassed by something somebody else did | German | society thinking adverse | |
| Goya (گویا) | The transporting suspension of disbelief that can occur in storytelling | Urdu | surprise | |
| Resol | That kind of sun light, non direct, when the sun is covered by clouds that still hurts the eyes. | Mallorquín | nature | |
| Zugzwang | To be forced to make a move even though it will likely to be at your disadvantage | German | action interaction philosophy | |
| Sehnsucht | Thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alternative experiences. | German | philosophy reflection |
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