Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Fika | Drinking coffee along with eating something sweet | Swedish | food society | |
Liberosis | The desire to care less about things. | English | thinking awareness | |
Ayurnamat | The philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed | Inuktitut | philosophy | |
Umij se | Splash water on your face | Serbian | physical action | |
Gretchenfrage | A direct question with the intention of unveiling the underlying thoughts of the person being questioned | German | awareness connection | |
Ellipsism | A sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out | English | adverse thinking time | |
Konfliktfähigkeit | the ability to manage interpersonal conflict constructivly, without becoming personally involved. | German | growth | |
Avoir la molle | A listless unwillingness to do any work | French | adverse | |
Chrysalism | An amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm. | English | nature beauty | |
Calacala | Children wading through water as they play | Tulu | family physical nature | |
Resol | That kind of sun light, non direct, when the sun is covered by clouds that still hurts the eyes. | Mallorquín | nature | |
Hammajang | "All messed up" | Hawaiian | adverse | |
sobremesa | After-dinner conversation | Spanish | food friends | |
Amaeru | To seek affection through doing things like clinging or pleading | Japanese | persistence | |
Culaccino | The mark left on the table by a cold glass | Italian | physical food | |
Luscofusco | Time of nightfall, just with the last ray of Sun | Galician | physical beauty | |
Manna | A sudden or unexpected help, advantage, or aid to success | English | change positive | |
Ser/Estar | The verb 'to be' is two different verbs in Spanish. Ser is 'what you are' and estar is 'how you are/where you are' | Spanish | attribute | |
Gula | Gluttony, greed; indulgence; eating simply for the taste (i.e., not from hunger). | Spanish | adverse | |
Insouciant | Free from worry, concern, or anxiety | English | positive | |
Ukiyo | The floating world - living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life | Japanese | creative visual art | |
Fernweh | To have a yearning to see distant places | German | travel thinking | |
L'esprit de l'escalier | Thinking of the perfect reply after the conversation is over. | French | friends interaction | |
Rocambolesco | Stunning action that requires extreme audacity; literally means "there's no need" as in "there's no need to thank you" | Italian | extreme surprise | |
Noniná | Triple negation. Means yes, with emphasis. | Spanish | attribute measurement positive | |
Wanderlust | A strong desire to travel | German | travel adventure | |
Ennui | A feeling of being bored and mentally tired caused by having nothing interesting or exciting to do | English | adverse feeling | |
Bimyou | Not bad, or "meh" | Japanese | attribute | |
Dørstokkmila | The longest mile between your cozy couch in your fireplace-candlelight-cabin-hygge and the door threshold. It would be "door-threshold-mile", loosely translated | Norwegian | nature | |
Niksen | Sitting down and do nothing at all, thinking of nothing at all | Dutch | feeling awareness |
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