Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Dhurna | Extorting payment from someone by sitting at their front door and staying there until you get paid | Hindi | action persistence | |
Víðsýni | A panoramic view; open-mindedness. | Icelandic | visual | |
Xíng qì (行氣) | Volitionally (e.g., mentally) circulating or directing qi. | Chinese | growth awareness strength | |
poshlost (пошлость) | Used to describe situations where things are being sold under the premise "that the greatest joy can be bought" | Russian | adverse extreme | |
Njuta | to deeply enjoy, to profoundly appreciate. | Swedish | positive | |
Beau geste | A gesture noble in its nature or intention but ultimately meaningless in substance | French | action | |
Attaccabottone | Something that you long to get away from but struggle to | Italian | adverse | |
Boketto | The act of gazing vacantly into the distance. | Japanese | thinking | |
Goesting | Looking forward to, can't wait, have an appetite for | Dutch | positive feeling | |
Karelu | The mark left on the skin by wearing something tight | Tulu | physical | |
Kuidare | To eat yourself into backruptcy | Japanese | food funny | |
Entzuterre | A distance that allows you to listen to another conversation | Basque | interaction | |
Jumpa | To jump from one floating piece of ice to another | Swedish | physical nature | |
Umij se | Splash water on your face | Serbian | physical action | |
Siftah | First sale of the day for merchant | Turkish | event | |
Fuchsteufelswütend | Literal: 'Fox devil angry'; steaming with rage | German | adverse stress emotion | |
Jia You (加油) | Literally translated to mean "add oil", Jia You means something along the lines of "give'er hell", used in the same way "good luck" is often applied in English | Chinese | strength interaction | |
Gezellig | A warm feeling of cozyness, but also have good times with friends af a party. | Dutch | feeling positive | |
Dygn | Day and night; 24 hours | Swedish | measurement | |
Stushevatsya | To fade into the background | Russian | action | |
Resfeber | Travel fever/bug; the feeling of excitement and nervousness experienced by a traveller before undertaking a journey. | Swedish | travel physical | |
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 | |
Geis | Taboo, prohibition; injunction; something you do (or don’t do), upon which your life depends, or which defines your life. | Irish | change fate | |
Ser/Estar | The verb 'to be' is two different verbs in Spanish. Ser is 'what you are' and estar is 'how you are/where you are' | Spanish | attribute | |
Ennui | A feeling of being bored and mentally tired caused by having nothing interesting or exciting to do | English | adverse feeling | |
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 | |
Lagom | Not too much and not too little | Swedish | measurement | |
Altschmerz | Weariness with the same old issues that you've always had - the same boring flaws and anxieties that you've been gnawing for years. | German | adverse growth attribute | |
Rizq | Life's provision of account. Often used in daily speech when someone wasn’t able to achieve something, it wasn’t in their Rizq. | Urdu | philosophy connection | |
Hüzün | Originally pain and sorrow over a loss, but also can mean melancholy associated with a sense of failure in life and a gloomy feeling that things will likely get worse. | Turkish | adverse emotion |
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