Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Nuchshlepper | Someone who follows another person; a hanger-on | Yiddish | awareness adverse persistence | |
Guddle | To fish using the hands, by searching under stones at a river bank | Scottish | action nature | |
Acedia | Lack of concern over your spiritual life or "mental sloth" | Greek | emotion religion | |
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 | |
Mu (無) | Not one, not zero, not yes, not no | Japanese | measurement | |
poshlost (пошлость) | Used to describe situations where things are being sold under the premise "that the greatest joy can be bought" | Russian | adverse extreme | |
Bababa ba? | Is it going down? (In the context of an elevator) | Tagalog | action | |
Xiao xiao | The whistling and pattering of rain or wind | Chinese | nature beauty sound | |
Spleen | Melancholy without apparent cause | French | feeling | |
Overskud | Extra/excess energy; do have sufficient resources to do something; profit (in an economic context). | Danish | attribute | |
Charmolypi | "Joy-making sorrow". A mixed feeling of happiness while being sad. | Greek | happiness adverse philosophy | |
Treppenwitz | Literal: "staircase joke", because the witty retort usually hits you in the stairwell on your way out | German | funny | |
Taraadin | A happy solution for everyone | Arabic | happiness society | |
Wintercearig | Literally "winter sorrow"; a feeling of deep sadness related to the cold, still, dark nature of winter | English | weather emotion adverse | |
Bon vivant | Someone who enjoys and appreciates the good life. | French | positive happiness | |
Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
Tsundoku | Acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them | Japanese | adverse | |
Shouganai | It cannot be helped. | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
Rückkehrunruhe | The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness. | German | awareness time | |
Khaste Nabashid (خسته نباشید) | "I hope that you are not tired" | Persian | society work | |
cāral (சாரல்) | A gentle secondary drizzle either from a waterfall or rain | Tamil | nature | |
Vorführeffekt | When you try to give some evidence in public that something works (or doesn't work), but you fail because the opposite happens. | German | 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 | |
Nakakapag pabagabag | Something that brings about excessive anxiety or restlessness for a period of time; something that is making you nervous | Tagalog | stress feeling awareness | |
Gretchenfrage | A direct question with the intention of unveiling the underlying thoughts of the person being questioned | German | awareness connection | |
Abquatulate | To leave without saying goodbye | English | action | |
Bixomets | Shame on behalf of others | Catalan | feeling adverse | |
Tízórai | A meal between breakfast and lunch, literally "at ten o'clock" | Hungarian | food time | |
Víðsýni | A panoramic view; open-mindedness. | Icelandic | visual | |
Pisan Zapra | The time needed to eat a banana | Malay | time measurement food |
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