Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Apapachar | Pamper a person especially when she or he is sad | Spanish | action | |
Onsay | Pretend to love | Boro | life | |
Ghalidan | Rolling from side to side as lovers do | Persian | love action connection | |
Tôpäj (төпәй) | Interjection that is used to forewarn a child of falling | Bashkir | action | |
Wabi-sabi | Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. | Japanese | beauty awareness | |
Subhiya | Morning coffee, gossip and chat with neighbors after housewives have sent their children to school | Arabic | community connection | |
Startijenn | A kickstart/boost of energy; also denotes perseverance. | Breton | strength | |
Chutzpah | Insolence, cheek, audacity. Commonly used to describe someone when they have crossed the line of acceptable behavior | Yiddish | extreme | |
Mangomoment | "What can I do now for you, to make you happy?" | Dutch | love friends connection | |
Wei-wu-wei | "Action without action" or effortless doing; conscious non-action; the deliberate and principled decision to do nothing for a reason. | Chinese | action life | |
Uitwaaien | To take a refreshing break outdoors in windy weather | Dutch | nature life beauty | |
Mechaye | Joy, pleasure; something that gives great joy/pleasure. | Yiddish | positive | |
Pulesveis | Messy hair, in particular in the back of the head, resulting from being rubbed against the pillow during sex | Norwegian | physical | |
Limerence | the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily and characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation of one's feelings but not primarily for a sexual relationship. | English | emotion love | |
Víðsýni | A panoramic view; open-mindedness. | Icelandic | visual | |
Shemomedjamo (შემომეჭამა) | To keep eating past the point of being full since the food tastes so good. | Georgian | food | |
Charmolypi | "Joy-making sorrow". A mixed feeling of happiness while being sad. | Greek | happiness adverse philosophy | |
Liberosis | The desire to care less about things. | English | thinking awareness | |
Kuuki Yomenai | "Cannot read the air” and jokingly applies to people who struggle to read social situations | Japanese | connection confusion | |
Noniná | Triple negation. Means yes, with emphasis. | Spanish | attribute measurement positive | |
Mágoa | A heart-breaking feeling that leaves long-lasting traces, visible in gestures and facial expressions | Portuguese | adverse emotion | |
Selcouth | Rare, strange, marvellous, wondrous. | English | attribute | |
Geis | Taboo, prohibition; injunction; something you do (or don’t do), upon which your life depends, or which defines your life. | Irish | change fate | |
Verschlimmbesserung | An attempt at improvement that makes things worse than they already were | German | adverse | |
Zhì (智) | Wisdom, perspicacity, knowledge. | Chinese | thinking awareness | |
Sphallolalia | Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere. | English | love life | |
Estrenar | The experience of wearing something for the first time | Spanish | life | |
kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
Töörõõm | work fun': finding the simple joys in everyday tasks. | Estonian | work feeling | |
Hiraeth | A deep longing for home | Welsh | reflection feeling |
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