Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Ǩuẓlanyu | To marry a divorced woman | Bashkir | family attribute | |
Rè nào (熱鬧) | Not only fun and lively, but also has a special vibe that makes everyone want to be there. | Chinese | positive music | |
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 | |
Verpeilt | Regularly forgetting things and not being in the present moment enough to organize your life properly | German | adverse awareness | |
Zhì (智) | Wisdom, perspicacity, knowledge. | Chinese | thinking awareness | |
Décidément | When coincidences occur or when events repeat themselves by chance (for example, when you run into the same person many times in one week) | French | surprise interaction fate | |
Fucha | To use company time and resources for one's own purposes | Portuguese | work adverse | |
Forelsket | The euphoria you feel when you're first falling in love. | Norwegian | love feeling change | |
Nekama | A man who pretends to be a woman on the internet | Japanese | society | |
Mágoa | A heart-breaking feeling that leaves long-lasting traces, visible in gestures and facial expressions | Portuguese | adverse emotion | |
Pochemuchka | A person who asks a lot of questions | Russian | friends attribute habits | |
Avspasere | To take a day (or more) off from work (e.g., because one has previously worked overtime and has built up credit). | Norwegian | society time | |
Presenzialismo | Someone who’s preoccupation is to make appearances at social events; the tendency to be present at every social event in order to get noticed. | Italian | community friends | |
Aeipathy | A continued passion; an unyielding disease | English | persistence | |
Schadenfreude | Pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. | German | feeling adverse | |
Extrawurst | Someone who is slowing things down by being fussy, making everything more complicated than necessary | German | stress adverse action | |
desenrascanço | the ability to find improvised solutions to problems | Portuguese | strength attribute life | |
Noroke | To brag about or sing the praises of the person you love | Japanese | love emotion | |
Resol | That kind of sun light, non direct, when the sun is covered by clouds that still hurts the eyes. | Mallorquín | nature | |
kaṟpu (கற்பு) | Determination to chastity, even in the face of adversity | Tamil | strength | |
Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits | |
(يقبرني) Ya'aburnee | A way to declare your hope that your loved one will outlive you because of how unbearable it would be to live without them. | Arabic | love time strength | |
Petrichor | The smell of earth after rain | English | nature beauty | |
Merienda | It's something you eat between lunch and dinner (sandwich, fruit...). At 6pm or so. Kids never miss it. | Spanish | food event | |
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 | |
Fika | Coffee and cake break with friends or colleagues | Swedish | food friends | |
Zugzwang | To be forced to make a move even though it will likely to be at your disadvantage | German | action interaction philosophy | |
Þetta reddast | it will all work out ok' (used especially when things don't look optimistic!). | Icelandic | fate | |
Toska (тоска) | At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. | Russian | adverse philosophy | |
Kopfkino | Imagining scenarios vividly ("head cinema") | German | thinking visual |
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