Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Wabi-sabi | Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. | Japanese | beauty awareness | |
Wanderlust | A strong desire to travel | German | travel adventure | |
Ninot | A ninot is a figure with human representation. In a conversation, it means a person without personality. | Valencian | attribute | |
Exulansis | The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. | English | emotion thinking | |
Umarell | A term referring specifically to men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice | Italian | attribute | |
Vorfreude | The joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures | German | time awareness happiness | |
Opia | the ambiguous intensity of eye-contact which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable. | English | society awareness | |
Gigil | The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute | Tagalog | physical positive funny | |
Schnapsleiche | So who passed out drunk ("liquor corpse") | German | adverse event friends | |
Seigneur-terrasse | Someone who spends time, but not money, at a café | French | funny life | |
Ellipsism | A sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out | English | adverse thinking time | |
Schnapsdrossel | A person that drinks a lot but rarely gets drunk | German | food habits | |
Efkar | The boredom of the soul. A lovely moment, that you need to be so happy, but instead you feel with a deep sorrow. | Turkish | feeling adverse | |
Magari | maybe, hopeful wish, wistful regret, in my dreams, if only. | Italian | thinking | |
Tatemae & Honne | The contrast between a person's feelings and desires (honne) versus the behavior and opinions one displays in public (tatemae) | Japanese | feeling reflection character | |
Listopad | The falling of the leaves | Russian | nature event | |
Lagom | Not too much and not too little | Swedish | measurement | |
Selcouth | Rare, strange, marvellous, wondrous. | English | attribute | |
Aegyo (애교) | Accentuated cute behaviour (voice/facial expression/gestures); Frequently used by K-pop idols (all genders) as fan service. Also used as a sign of affection towards loved ones (family or romantic partners). | Korean | cultural | |
Stushevatsya | To fade into the background | Russian | action | |
Manna | A sudden or unexpected help, advantage, or aid to success | English | change positive | |
Bohereen | A tight, single lane country lane | Irish | explore physical | |
Oxymoron | Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | English | attribute confusion | |
Gaupasa | Spend the whole night partying until the early morning of the next day. | Basque | interaction exciting | |
Rückkehrunruhe | The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness. | German | awareness time | |
Friolero | Someone that is very sensitive to cold. That friend that always feel cold. | Spanish | attribute friends | |
Poka-Yoke | Any mechanism in any process that helps an equipment operator avoid (yokeru) mistakes (poka) | Japanese | work process | |
Chamcha | Literally: spoon, someone who sucks up to someone else or seeks another's approval constantly | Hindi | negative character | |
piñcu (பிஞ்சு) | Young, baby fruit | Tamil | food | |
Rén (仁) | Humanity, benevolence; the positive feeling enjoyed by a virtuous person through altruistic behaviour. | Chinese | positive |
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