Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Frustfressen | Excessive eating because of frustration | German | food adverse habits | |
Torschlusspanik | The fear that time is running out on achieving life goals | German | growth awareness | |
Resfeber | Travel fever/bug; the feeling of excitement and nervousness experienced by a traveller before undertaking a journey. | Swedish | travel physical | |
Wejbet | Unwanted/inconvenient social and family obligations that are somewhat necessary to maintain good relations | Arabic | family interaction cultural | |
Être dépaysé | To be in an environment you're not used to | French | change society awareness | |
Durcheinander | Complete mess; screwed up beyond all recognition | German | adverse | |
Attaccabottone | Something that you long to get away from but struggle to | Italian | adverse | |
desenrascanço | the ability to find improvised solutions to problems | Portuguese | strength attribute life | |
Solkatt | The glimmer that reflects the sunshine off a wristwatch | Swedish | physical beauty | |
Carpe Diem | Make the most of the present moment or opportunity. Lit. sieze the day. | Latin | positive | |
Salām (سلام) | Peace, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity; used also as a greeting/parting salutation. | Arabic | positive | |
Abendrot | The colour of the sky when the sun is setting | German | nature beauty | |
Ehvenişer | When choosing between bad things, the lesser of two evils. | Turkish | philosophy | |
Kombinować | to conspire/try to resolve a problem with unusual methods or through connections | Polish | creative action | |
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 | |
Ohrwurm | A melody or song that gets stuck in your head ("ear worm") | German | life music | |
Erkelmek | Teasing someone with repeating what they say | Nogay | interaction funny | |
Celístia | Brighness from the stars | Catalan | nature physical | |
Nameer (نمير) | Clear water. | Arabic | nature attribute | |
Nodus tollens | The realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore. | English | philosophy awareness life | |
Abditory | A place into which you can disappear; a hiding place | English | physical thinking | |
Gambiarra | A very poor or ugly but effective solution for a problem; to use improvised methods / solutions to solve a problem, with any avaiable material | Portuguese | creative | |
Hygge | A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being. | Danish | life feeling | |
Mencomot | Stealing things of small value, mostly for fun rather than out of necessity. | Indonesian | action funny | |
Fika | Drinking coffee along with eating something sweet | Swedish | food society | |
La douleur exquise | The pain that comes from wanting someone you can’t have | French | feeling awareness love | |
Handschuhschneeballwerfer | A coward willing to criticize and abuse from a safe distance | German | adverse attribute interaction | |
Schadenfreude | Pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. | German | feeling adverse | |
Andria (ανδρεία) | Both valour and courage, expressed in actions in front of the face of danger | Greek | strength character | |
Exulansis | The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. | English | emotion thinking |
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