Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Siwon | Usually meanng cool or cold, but when used in the context of dining, means the taste which achieves the ideal umami such that the food feels cool | Korean | food attribute | |
Spleen | Melancholy without apparent cause | French | feeling | |
Vergangenheitsbewältigung | Coping with the past | German | reflection growth | |
Nintendo | “Leave luck to heaven” or to leave one's fortune in the hands of fate | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
Débrouille | May be synonymous with resourceful, but it is more of a way of living by making do with little and improvising with what you have | French | creative | |
Þetta reddast | it will all work out ok' (used especially when things don't look optimistic!). | Icelandic | fate | |
Bixomets | Shame on behalf of others | Catalan | feeling adverse | |
Morriña | Nostalgia that you feel when you are far from home | Galician | feeling awareness life | |
Ćeif | A slow and silent enjoyment in someone or in something | Bosnian | positive 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 | |
Dayenu | "It would have been enough" | Hebrew | reflection | |
Víðsýni | A panoramic view; open-mindedness. | Icelandic | visual | |
Ohrwurm | A melody or song that gets stuck in your head ("ear worm") | German | life music | |
Tsundoku | Acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them | Japanese | adverse | |
Abquatulate | To leave without saying goodbye | English | action | |
Strohwitwer | "Grass widower"; a man whose partner or wife has left him alone. | German | family adverse | |
Zeg | The day after tomorrow | Georgian | time measurement | |
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 | |
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 | |
Uzsonna | A meal between lunch and dinner | Hungarian | food time | |
Ubuntu | A quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity. | Zulu | beauty character awareness | |
Fargin | To wholeheartedly appreciate the success of others | Yiddish | empathy happiness connection | |
Ômä (өмә) | Collective helping | Bashkir | society positive | |
Ninot | A ninot is a figure with human representation. In a conversation, it means a person without personality. | Valencian | attribute | |
Nuchshlepper | Someone who follows another person; a hanger-on | Yiddish | awareness adverse persistence | |
Geis | Taboo, prohibition; injunction; something you do (or don’t do), upon which your life depends, or which defines your life. | Irish | change fate | |
Vprikusku | Drinking tea through pieces of sugar | Russian | food action | |
Ômä (өмә) | Collective helping | Bashkir | society positive | |
Kairosclerosis | A moment in which you realize that you're happy but simultaneously destroy that happiness by overthinking it | English | happiness reflection change | |
Crapoter | verb. To not take a lungful of a cigarette. | French | health action society |
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