Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
| Bimyou | Not bad, or "meh" | Japanese | attribute | |
| Cwtch | Wrapping of your arms around someone to make them feel safe in the world | Welsh | love connection | |
| Shibui | Old school cool | Japanese | attribute | |
| Angushti za'id | Someone with six fingers | Persian | physical | |
| Poka-Yoke | Any mechanism in any process that helps an equipment operator avoid (yokeru) mistakes (poka) | Japanese | work process | |
| Vellichor | The strange wistfulness of used bookshops | English | feeling | |
| Waldeinsamkeit | The feeling of solitude in the woods | German | nature beauty | |
| Ukiyo | The floating world - living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life | Japanese | creative visual art | |
| Nuchshlepper | Someone who follows another person; a hanger-on | Yiddish | awareness adverse persistence | |
| Duende | The mysterious power of art to deeply move a person | Spanish | art feeling emotion | |
| Ḥôjônsô (һөйөнсө) | Good news for which a reward is given | Bashkir | positive event | |
| Prozvonit | To call a mobile phone and let it ring once so that the other person will call back, saving the first caller money. | Czech | life funny event | |
| Crapoter | verb. To not take a lungful of a cigarette. | French | health action society | |
| Gemba | The real place'; in business it refers to the real place where value is created, such as the factory floor. Instead of depending on hierarchy, the people who are closest to what's happening make decisions. Ie: the more hands-on knowledge a decision-maker has, the better their decision will be. | Japanese | work cultural | |
| Voetstoots | A sale where the thing is sold as is or with all its faults without any guarantees | Afrikaans | action | |
| Han | Sorrow, regret, grief, resentment, "a dull ache of the soul", yet passive and not revenge seeking; waiting for the injustice to be righted | Korean | society persistence adverse | |
| Weichei | Literal: "soft egg"; someone who is weak or cowardly | German | adverse attribute | |
| Strohwitwer | "Grass widower"; a man whose partner or wife has left him alone. | German | family adverse | |
| Mysa | Can mean "cosying up" or "to snuggle", but in braoder sense, it means to "have a nice and relaxed time" | Swedish | happiness time | |
| Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
| Culaccino | The mark left on the table by a cold glass | Italian | physical food | |
| Zgabalj | Mixture of all the bad things in the world, combined | Serbian | adverse society | |
| Sielvartas | Literal translation as “soul tumbling” used as grief or resentment | Lithuanian | adverse thinking emotion | |
| Niksen | Sitting down and do nothing at all, thinking of nothing at all | Dutch | feeling awareness | |
| Schnapsleiche | So who passed out drunk ("liquor corpse") | German | adverse event friends | |
| Sgriob | The itchiness of the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky | Irish | physical food | |
| Bildung | education, formation, acculturation, cultivation, development. | German | cultural | |
| Lepos | Charm, grace, wit, elegance, allure. | Latin | positive attribute | |
| Sonder | the realization that everyone has a life as vivid and complex as your own); coined by John Koenig. | English | philosophy awareness |
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