Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Didis | To search and pick up lice from one's own hair, usually when in bed at night | Indonesian | physical adverse | |
L’chaim (לְחַיִּים) | Lit. ‘to life’. | Hebrew | life | |
Desenrascar | An informal word that means the act of figuring out things | Portuguese | thinking growth | |
Tachiyomi | To stand in a bookstore and read a book without buying it | Japanese | society funny action | |
Kinkartvyavimudh | Helplessness due to being duty-bound | Hindi | feeling | |
kataṟu (கதறு) | Helplessly shaking and crying | Tamil | action adverse | |
Ghalidan | Rolling from side to side as lovers do | Persian | love action connection | |
Nadryv (Надрыв) | Literally means "to tear or break", but can also mean the inner tension of someone who is about to break | Russian | stress emotion | |
Döşek | Anything that you can use when you are laying down or sleeping | Turkish | physical | |
Sirimiri | Weak and constant rain; stronger than a mist but less than a shower. | Basque | weather physical | |
L’ecole stratim (לאכול סרטים) | Literally "to eat motives"; describing a person that loves drama | Yiddish | extreme interaction | |
La douleur exquise | The pain that comes from wanting someone you can’t have | French | feeling awareness love | |
Sielvartas | Literal translation as “soul tumbling” used as grief or resentment | Lithuanian | adverse thinking emotion | |
Rehepaplus | A kind of entrepreneurialism that mustn't always have the moral high ground. Clever, sometimes at the expense of others and their stupidity. The word can be used as both a positive (quick thinker) as a negative (scammer). | Estonian | character attribute | |
Rashk-e-Qamar | Someone who is so beautiful, the moon is jealous of their beauty | Urdu | beauty | |
Abhayamudrâ (अभय मुद्रा) | The gesture (e.g., in Hindu and Buddhist iconography) of fearlessness, protection, and/or peace; involves the palms facing outwards, and the fingers extending upwards. | Sanskrit | strength | |
Bon vivant | Someone who enjoys and appreciates the good life. | French | positive happiness | |
Resfeber | Travel fever/bug; the feeling of excitement and nervousness experienced by a traveller before undertaking a journey. | Swedish | travel physical | |
Mbuki-mvuki | To shake off your clothes to dance more freely | Swahili | clothing music | |
Ludus | playful love between children or casual lovers | Greek | love | |
Pragma | longtime love, such as in long marriages | Greek | love family | |
Insouciant | Free from worry, concern, or anxiety | English | positive | |
Aşermek | The experience of craving certain foods while pregnant | Turkish | food | |
Tampo | Behaviour in which a person withdraws his or her affection or cheerfulness from a person who has hurt his or her feelings; when you're disappointed with someone yet do not express it directly | Tagalog | adverse emotion | |
Schulbildend | Inspiring or leading to the creation of schools of thought. | German | growth philosophy | |
Overskud | Extra/excess energy; do have sufficient resources to do something; profit (in an economic context). | Danish | attribute | |
Wú (無) | Negative, void, nothingness, non-being; can imply 'neither yes nor no'. | Chinese | adverse | |
Luftmensch | Literal: "air person". Refers to someone who is a bit of a dreamer | Yiddish | attribute | |
Ikigai | A reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning. | Japanese | growth happiness | |
Mysa | Can mean "cosying up" or "to snuggle", but in braoder sense, it means to "have a nice and relaxed time" | Swedish | happiness time |
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