Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Flâner | verb. to purposely wander, to decide to explore with no final destination. | French | explore travel | |
Camhanaich | Half-light; early morning twilight | Irish | event nature | |
Sphallolalia | Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere. | English | love life | |
Xiao xiao | The whistling and pattering of rain or wind | Chinese | nature beauty sound | |
Zechpreller | Someone who leaves without paying the bill. | German | adverse event friends | |
कौतुक (Kautuk) | What is required is steady, constructive effort, not lightning speed and empty show | Marathi | philosophy persistence | |
Schnapsidee | An idea so stupid the person must have thought of it while drunk | German | funny thinking creative | |
Chrysalism | An amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm. | English | nature beauty | |
Onism | The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits just one place at a time. | English | awareness reflection thinking | |
Petrichor | The smell of earth after rain | English | nature beauty | |
Eomchina | Contraction of the phrase "Mom's friend's son". Academically successful (and possibly wealthy) male student who is the target of envy among others | Korean | family society work | |
Andria (ανδρεία) | Both valour and courage, expressed in actions in front of the face of danger | Greek | strength character | |
Skare | A thin layer of ice on top of snow | Swedish | physical nature | |
Exulansis | The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. | English | emotion thinking | |
Dépaysement | The feeling of being in an environment that you are not used to | French | feeling awareness change | |
Zugzwang | To be forced to make a move even though it will likely to be at your disadvantage | German | action interaction philosophy | |
Polytropos (πολύτροπος) | Much turned, much traveled, much wandering; turning many ways (shifty, versatile, wily) (changeful, complicated) [notoriously used in the opening of The Odyssey as an early challenge for translators] | Greek | explore | |
Layogenic | Good looking from a distance | Tagalog | visual | |
Fuchsteufelswütend | Literal: 'Fox devil angry'; steaming with rage | German | adverse stress emotion | |
L’chaim (לְחַיִּים) | Lit. ‘to life’. | Hebrew | life | |
Ramé | Something that is both chaotic and joyful at the same time | Indonesian | life attribute | |
Að redda | To save someone or fix something in a time sensitive manner. | Icelandic | time | |
Autophile | A person that loves solitude, being alone | English | character attribute | |
Numinous | Describing an experience that makes you fearful yet fascinated, awed yet attracted - the powerful, personal feeling of being overwhelmed an inspired | English | beauty emotion | |
Anecdoche | A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening. | English | friends life | |
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 | |
Acoy | Something that is either very positive or negative | Indonesian | positive measurement | |
Kenopsia | The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet. | English | change time | |
Goso | When you smell sesame oil - that nutty, flavorful, aromatic - mostly used to describe smells of sesame and/or bean paste | Korean | sensory food | |
Jugaad (जुगाड) | the ability to 'make do' or 'get by'. | Hindi | life |
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