Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Vorfreude | The joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures | German | time awareness happiness | |
Töörõõm | work fun': finding the simple joys in everyday tasks. | Estonian | work feeling | |
Aka'aka'a | Skin peeling or falling off after either sunburn or heavy drinking | Hawaiian | physical adverse | |
Bon vivant | Someone who enjoys and appreciates the good life. | French | positive happiness | |
La douleur exquise | The pain that comes from wanting someone you can’t have | French | feeling awareness love | |
Erinmek | Not doing something you have to do just because you don’t want to; being a prick | Nogay | adverse | |
Hikikomori | When a young person who is obsessed with TV, video games, and the internet, withdraws from society | Japanese | habits society | |
Estrenar | The experience of wearing something for the first time | Spanish | life | |
Empalagoso | Too sweet. Adjective to say you ate something so sweet that you got sick of it. | Spanish | food adverse change | |
Yoisho | A word without meaning, said when flopping into a chair after a hard day at work or lifting a heavy bag. | Japanese | event physical work | |
Paasa | A person who leads someone on (intentionally or not). Appearing as if they are genuinely interested romantically when they aren’t | Tagalog | adverse interaction awareness | |
Skare | A thin layer of ice on top of snow | Swedish | physical nature | |
Schilderwald | Jungle of traffic signs; a street so crowded with signs that you become lost | German | stress confusion | |
İmece | The gathering of many people and doing the work of one person | Turkish | community | |
sobremesa | After-dinner conversation | Spanish | food friends | |
Tüddelig | Sweet, elderly, and senile | German | character | |
Eomchina | Contraction of the phrase "Mom's friend's son". Academically successful (and possibly wealthy) male student who is the target of envy among others | Korean | family society work | |
Tizita (ትዝታ) | A bittersweet remembrance and longing for a time, person, thing gone by. | Amharic | time thinking | |
Saudade | melancholic longing, nostalgia, dreaming wistfulness. | Portuguese | life | |
Klexos | the art of dwelling on the past; coined by John Koenig. | English | thinking | |
Utepils | The act of sitting outside on a sunny day enjoying a beer | Norwegian | event life positive | |
On (恩) | A feeling of moral indebtedness, relating to a favour or blessing given by others. | Japanese | life | |
Nostalgie de la boue | A yearning for degradation, depravity, or other crude/base aspects of life, literally "a yearning for mud" | French | feeling | |
Neko-neko | Someone that has a novel idea that only makes things worse | Indonesian | funny creative | |
Erbsenzähler | Literally "a person who literally counts their peas"; someone who is nitpicky and always trying to make things perfect | German | attribute measurement extreme | |
Jein | Yes and no | German | attribute measurement | |
Lus | Desire, craving; greed; fancy, cupidity; inclination, tendency. | Afrikaans | adverse | |
Talkoot | a collectively pursued/undertaken task; voluntary community work. | Finnish | event society | |
Meraki | Describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — when you put “something of yourself” into what you're doing, whatever it may be. | Greek | emotion strength | |
Parea | A group of friends who regularly gather together to share their experiences about life, their philosophies, values and ideas. | Greek | friends philosophical |
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