Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Erinmek | Not doing something you have to do just because you don’t want to; being a prick | Nogay | adverse | |
Sabhsaí | Someone who works outside no matter how bad the weather is | Irish | work persistence | |
Trennungsagentur | Literal: "separation agent"; A man hired by women to break the news to their boyfriends that they are breaking up | German | action | |
Dreich | Especially of weather: dreary, bleak. For example, "a cold, dreich early April day" | Scottish | weather adverse | |
Abendrot | The colour of the sky when the sun is setting | German | nature beauty | |
Mecnun | "madly in love" to the point of actual mental instability | Turkish | love emotion | |
Consuegro | Father in law of your son | Spanish | family | |
Odnoliub | Someone who has only one love in his or her life; someone who is capable of loving only one at a time | Russian | love fate | |
Anánkē (Ανάγκη) | destiny, fate, necessity. | Greek | awareness | |
Efkar | The boredom of the soul. A lovely moment, that you need to be so happy, but instead you feel with a deep sorrow. | Turkish | feeling adverse | |
Zeg | The day after tomorrow | Georgian | time measurement | |
(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 | |
Koev li halev (כואב לי הלב) | Literally "my head hurts", but used to convey empathy for someone's suffering | Yiddish | empathy connection | |
Friluftsliv | “Free air life,” signifying a fundamental understanding of the positive impact of being in nature | Norwegian | nature health | |
Pragma | longtime love, such as in long marriages | Greek | love family | |
Eesome | Pleasing to the eye | English | beauty | |
Ignōrāmus | Lit. ‘we do not know’ (e.g., the spirit of scientific enquiry), or ‘we take no notice of’ (used in legal contexts, e.g., when deemed evidence to be inadmissible). | Latin | philosophy growth | |
Orphic | Mysterious and entertaining; beyond ordinary understanding | English | reflection | |
Skare | A thin layer of ice on top of snow | Swedish | physical nature | |
Abditory | A place into which you can disappear; a hiding place | English | physical thinking | |
Nutro (Нутро) | Something that governs your inner being; your core | Russian | strength character | |
Pomicione | A man who seizes any chance of being in close contact with a woman | Italian | attribute | |
Insouciant | Free from worry, concern, or anxiety | English | positive | |
Tokimeku | A sudden flutter in your heart, or that feeling of inspiration if you’re anticipating something | Japanese | feeling exciting | |
Aeipathy | A continued passion; an unyielding disease | English | persistence | |
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 | |
Aspaldiko! | Expression of surprise after not seeing someone for a long time. | Basque | surprise feeling | |
Shemomedjamo (შემომეჭამა) | To keep eating past the point of being full since the food tastes so good. | Georgian | food | |
Ayurnamat | The philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed | Inuktitut | philosophy | |
Xeitoso | Something well done or someone who does some particular thing well. Also someone who looks put together. A person has (or has not) "xeito" (is "xeitoso", or not) at doing something when he does something properly. | Galician | character |
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