Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Rubatosis | The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat | English | physical health awareness | |
Aeipathy | A continued passion; an unyielding disease | English | persistence | |
Shinrin-yoku (森林浴) | bathing' in the forest (literally and/or metaphorically). | Japanese | nature event | |
Aşermek | The experience of craving certain foods while pregnant | Turkish | food | |
Faamiti | The sound made by sucking air past the lips in order to gain the attention of a dog or child | Samoan | sound | |
Spleen | Melancholy without apparent cause | French | feeling | |
Ilunga | The capacity to forgive once, tolerate a second time, but never a third time. Conveys the progression toward intolerance. | Tshiluba | growth emotion reflection | |
Kram | The quality of snow that makes it moldable so that one make snow balls and snowmen. | Norwegian | nature attribute | |
A'ama | Someone who speaks rapidly, hiding their meaning from one person while communicating it to another | Hawaiian | interaction | |
Hoppilandkalle | Guy who jumps to dry land to moor a boat | Swedish | action | |
Feierabend | End of the work day | German | event | |
Chaval al hazman (חבל אל הזמן) | Literally "shame on time"; referring to an amazing experience that you don't want to end | Hebrew | beauty happiness time | |
Livsnjutare | Someone who loves life deeply | Swedish | love life beauty | |
Pole | Sorry; can also express empathy and understanding. | Swahili | thinking life | |
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 | |
Scrumping | Stealing fruit (particularly apples) from trees | English | food action | |
Adronitis | Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone | English | friends connection | |
Schnapsleiche | So who passed out drunk ("liquor corpse") | German | adverse event friends | |
Mudita | The pleasure that comes from delighting in other people's well-being or happiness | Sanskrit | happiness positive empathy | |
Jayus | A joke that is so unfunny (or told so badly) that you just have to laugh. | Indonesian | funny | |
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 | |
Resol | That kind of sun light, non direct, when the sun is covered by clouds that still hurts the eyes. | Mallorquín | nature | |
Riposo | Rest, repose; a nap; cf. siesta. | Italian | 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 | |
Psithurism | The sound of wind through trees | English | nature beauty | |
Tempus fugit | Time flies, flees, escapes. | Latin | time | |
Hanyauku | To walk on tiptoes across a hot surface | Rukwangali | physical action | |
Shouganai | It cannot be helped. | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
Obhimaan (অভিমান ) | Anger, or something close to it, at being upset with a loved one. Abhiman is not anger or sorrow. It is a temporary expression of a feeling about a loved one that he or she is supposed to address. | Bengali | adverse feeling | |
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 |
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