Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Kuidare | To eat yourself into backruptcy | Japanese | food funny | |
Tizita (ትዝታ) | A bittersweet remembrance and longing for a time, person, thing gone by. | Amharic | time thinking | |
Friolero | Someone that is very sensitive to cold. That friend that always feel cold. | Spanish | attribute friends | |
Sous-entendu | Don't listen to what you heard. Listen for the message embedded. | French | awareness reflection | |
Mu (無) | Not one, not zero, not yes, not no | Japanese | measurement | |
Yuputka | A word made for walking in the woods at night, it’s the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin | Ulwa | nature adverse | |
Rhwe | To sleep on the floor without a carpet, drunk and naked | Tsonga | funny event | |
Zanshin (残心) | Lit. ‘remaining/enduring heart-mind’; a state of relaxed mental alertness (especially in the face of danger or stress). | Japanese | awareness | |
Arbejdsglæde | Literally "work happiness"; the feeling of happiness provoked by a satisfying job | Danish | work happiness feeling | |
Liberosis | The desire to care less about things. | English | thinking awareness | |
Zažitjsja (зажиться) | To keep living beyond the point where one feels they would be better off dead | Russian | death adverse | |
Ehvenişer | When choosing between bad things, the lesser of two evils. | Turkish | philosophy | |
Kopfkino | Imagining scenarios vividly ("head cinema") | German | thinking visual | |
Angushti za'id | Someone with six fingers | Persian | physical | |
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 | |
Kenshō (見性) | Seeing (ken) one’s nature or essence (shō); perceiving one’s Buddha nature; sometimes interpreted as an initial or brief awakening. | Japanese | awareness growth | |
Yuanfen | A relationship by fate or destiny. This is a complex concept. It draws on principles of predetermination in Chinese culture, which dictate relationships, encounters and affinities, mostly among lovers and friends. | Chinese | love society | |
Arlésienne | Used to describe people who are at the centre of a conversation/situation/problem but can’t be found anywhere | French | society interaction | |
Wintercearig | Literally "winter sorrow"; a feeling of deep sadness related to the cold, still, dark nature of winter | English | weather emotion adverse | |
Ba Namak | A person "with salt"—funny, witty, flavorful, or charming, as opposed to a humorless, dry person. | Persian | positive exciting | |
Mauri | The essence that animates something living, but not human | Māori | nature | |
Ikigai | A reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning. | Japanese | growth happiness | |
Duende | The mysterious power of art to deeply move a person | Spanish | art feeling emotion | |
Chai-Pani | Literal: "tea and water"; the money and favors given to someone to get things done | Hindi | food action | |
Épater les bourgeois | To shock the middle classes | French | society surprise extreme | |
Mysig | To describe anything with an unexpectedly relaxing vibe | Swedish | positive | |
Verschlimmbesserung | An attempt at improvement that makes things worse than they already were | German | adverse | |
Charmolypi | "Joy-making sorrow". A mixed feeling of happiness while being sad. | Greek | happiness adverse philosophy | |
Dor | The heartbreak and sense of longing you feel because you’re separated from your love | Romanian | love adverse | |
Cynefin | A place where a person or an animal feels it ought to live and belong; it is where nature around you feels right and welcoming | Welsh | nature feeling |
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