Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Kilig | It is the sudden feeling of an inexplicable joy one gets when something romantic or idealistic occurs; butterflies. | Tagalog | feeling love connection | |
Hinna | "To find the time” or “to be on time” | Swedish | time | |
Adroit | Lit. according to right; skilled, resourceful; dexterous. | French | attribute | |
Gattara | A woman catlover who feeds alley cats or spends time with domestic cats | Italian | life society | |
Tartle | The act of hesitating while introducing someone because you've forgotten their name | Scottish | funny event friends | |
Myötähäpeä | Secondhand embarrassment | Finnish | adverse feeling | |
Liberosis | The desire to care less about things. | English | thinking awareness | |
Buksvåger | Literally means "abdomen brothers-in-law"; used for two men who have slept with the same woman | Swedish | physical | |
Débrouille | May be synonymous with resourceful, but it is more of a way of living by making do with little and improvising with what you have | French | creative | |
Layogenic | Good looking from a distance | Tagalog | visual | |
Kummerspeck | Weight you gain because you're unhappy ("sorrow bacon") | German | food adverse habits | |
Backpfeifengesicht | A face in need of a slap | German | physical funny | |
Ohrwurm | A melody or song that gets stuck in your head ("ear worm") | German | life music | |
Eldsjäl | This noun is literally ‘fire-soul’, but the actual meaning is ‘enthusiast’ or ‘driving spirit’. | Swedish | strength | |
Abbiocco | The feeling of falling asleep after lunch or dinner | Italian | food feeling | |
Mecnun | "madly in love" to the point of actual mental instability | Turkish | love emotion | |
Didis | To search and pick up lice from one's own hair, usually when in bed at night | Indonesian | physical adverse | |
Volta | During certain hours of the early evening, around dusk, everyone in the town who might feel like going for a walk takes a saunter or stroll up and down the main street | Greek | time physical nature | |
Tulak ng bibig, kabig ng dibdib. | Pretending to dislike something, when it reality you actually like it. Literal translation, "push of the mouth, pull (drawing closer to self) of the chest". | Tagalog | action | |
(يقبرني) Ya'aburnee | A declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them. | Arabic | love connection fate | |
Kalsarikänni | to get drunk (alone) at home in your underwear with no intention of going out | Finnish | funny action | |
Glückspilz | A lucky person ("lucky mushroom") | German | positive | |
Forelsket | The euphoria you feel when you're first falling in love. | Norwegian | love feeling change | |
Lekker | Literal translation "tasty", but can be used to describe anything that has one's hearty approval | Afrikaans | positive attribute | |
Hygge | A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being. | Danish | life feeling | |
Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine | The longest word in Turkish, meaning, ‘It's as though you are from those whom we may not be able to easily make into a maker of unsucessful ones.’ | Turkish | attribute | |
Koshatnik | A dealer in stolen cats | Russian | adverse character work | |
Voetstoots | A sale where the thing is sold as is or with all its faults without any guarantees | Afrikaans | action | |
Merienda | It's something you eat between lunch and dinner (sandwich, fruit...). At 6pm or so. Kids never miss it. | Spanish | food event | |
Sophrosyne | A healthy state of mind, characterized by self-control, moderation, and a deep awareness of one's true self, and resulting in one's true happiness. | Greek | awareness happiness reflection |
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