Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Ludus | playful love between children or casual lovers | Greek | love | |
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 | |
Достолепие (dostolepiye) | Contains the roots for dosta (a lot) and lepota (beautiful) from Old Bulgarian language. The word literally means full of beauty but it is more like a combination of noble, full of values, beautiful and brave for man and femininity for women. It is very typical to use this word in context of old traditional photos of people where one appreciate the beauty of the past. | Bulgarian | beauty | |
Bixomets | Shame on behalf of others | Catalan | feeling adverse | |
Fika | Drinking coffee along with eating something sweet | Swedish | food society | |
Listopad | The falling of the leaves | Russian | nature event | |
Athazagoraphobia | The fear of forgetting, being forgotten or ignored, or being replaced | English | reflection thinking | |
Kibun | Your state of mind with respect to your place in the world. | Korean | reflection awareness | |
Eunoia | A well-mind; beautiful thinking | Greek | beauty | |
Þetta reddast | it will all work out ok' (used especially when things don't look optimistic!). | Icelandic | fate | |
Yaqin (يقين) | Certitude and freedom from doubt. | Arabic | feeling awareness | |
Sehnsucht | Thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alternative experiences. | German | philosophy reflection | |
Egyszer volt budán kutyavásár | Literal: "there was a dog-market in Buda only once"; translates to essentially a once in a lifetime opportunity | Hungarian | life fate exciting | |
Nunchi | The art of listening to a person and identifying his or her moods or emotions. The literal combination of "eye" and measure" | Korean | interaction connection emotion | |
Ômä (өмә) | Collective helping | Bashkir | society positive | |
Dhakkann | "The shroud of clouds concealed the sun." Someone too naive to see the truth in things, also used in a derogatory way | Hindi | adverse awareness | |
Être dépaysé | To be in an environment you're not used to | French | change society awareness | |
Rhwe | To sleep on the floor without a carpet, drunk and naked | Tsonga | funny event | |
Aşermek | The experience of craving certain foods while pregnant | Turkish | food | |
Wei-wu-wei | "Action without action" or effortless doing; conscious non-action; the deliberate and principled decision to do nothing for a reason. | Chinese | action life | |
Spätzünder | A person who needs a long time to understands sth/ so who makes belated progress of personal development | German | adverse | |
Crapoter | verb. To not take a lungful of a cigarette. | French | health action society | |
Philotimo (φιλότιμο) | The inner impulse to act well and in alignment with the moral virtues that represent one's own society and upbringing | Greek | society character family | |
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 | |
Kenjataimu | "wise man's time": The post-orgasmic period when a man's thoughts are no longer impaired by his sexual drive; he is thus likened to a "sage" of clear mind | Japanese | awareness | |
Tîeow (เที่ยว) | To wander or roam around in a carefree way. | Thai | travel positive change | |
kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
Guān xì (關係) | Cultivating relationships; reciprocal connections; networking; social karma. | Chinese | society friends | |
Vprikusku | Drinking tea through pieces of sugar | Russian | food action | |
Wú (無) | Negative, void, nothingness, non-being; can imply 'neither yes nor no'. | Chinese | adverse |
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