Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Kintsukuroi | To repair with gold. Understanding that a piece is more beautiful for having broken. | Japanese | beauty change | |
Kabelsalat | Tangled up cables; literally “cable-salad" | German | funny physical | |
Firgun (פירגון) | Ungrudging and overt (expressed) pride and happiness at other's successes. | Hebrew | happiness | |
Meraki | Describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — when you put “something of yourself” into what you're doing, whatever it may be. | Greek | emotion strength | |
Ramé | Something that is both chaotic and joyful at the same time | Indonesian | life attribute | |
O ka la nokonoko | A day spent in nervous anticipation of a coughing spell | Hawaiian | thinking health stress | |
Xíng qì (行氣) | Volitionally (e.g., mentally) circulating or directing qi. | Chinese | growth awareness strength | |
Kaapshljmurslis | The feeling of being cramped on public transportation | Latvian | stress physical | |
Fingerspitzengefühl | Literal: “finger tips feeling", but means an intuitive feel or to have one's finger on the pulse | German | feeling | |
Mimoso | Said of something that enjoys being pampered or shown affection | Spanish | attribute love | |
Gigil | The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute | Tagalog | physical positive funny | |
Aimonomia | Being scared to learn the ‘why’ of something | English | adverse feeling thinking | |
Waldeinsamkeit | The feeling of solitude in the woods | German | nature beauty | |
Nja | Combining no (nej) and yes (ja); neither yes or no (or both yes and no); expressing uncertainty. | Swedish | measurement | |
Chindogu | A person seemingly inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem, but are in fact nothing more than a useless gag | Japanese | creative funny | |
Mauri | The essence that animates something living, but not human | Māori | nature | |
Kuebiko | A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence | Japanese | adverse feeling | |
Punya | “Merit,” “virtue”, “sacred", "good karma", among other things | Sanskrit | beauty | |
Bào fù xìng āo yè (報復性熬夜) | Revenge bedtime procrastination | Chinese | emotion | |
Merak | A feeling of bliss and the sense of oneness with the universe that comes from the simplest of pleasures. It is the pursuit of small, daily pleasures that all add up to a great sense of happiness and fulfillment. | Serbian | positive growth | |
Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
Kweesten | Inviting a lover into your bed for some pillow talk | Dutch | love action event | |
Hoʻoponopono | Mutual forgiveness. | Hawaiian | connection character emotion | |
Milozvučan | Having a sweet and gentle voice | Croatian | attribute physical | |
Onism | The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits just one place at a time. | English | awareness reflection thinking | |
Kenopsia | The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet. | English | change time | |
Tsundoku | Acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them | Japanese | adverse | |
Trennungsagentur | Literal: "separation agent"; A man hired by women to break the news to their boyfriends that they are breaking up | German | action | |
Schwärmerei | Excessive or extreme enthusiasm or sentimentality. | German | happiness | |
Sitzfleisch | Having "Sitzfleisch": being persistent enough to complete a tough or big task | German | strength growth |
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