Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Obhimaan (অভিমান ) | Anger, or something close to it, at being upset with a loved one. Abhiman is not anger or sorrow. It is a temporary expression of a feeling about a loved one that he or she is supposed to address. | Bengali | adverse feeling | |
Gretchenfrage | A direct question with the intention of unveiling the underlying thoughts of the person being questioned | German | awareness connection | |
Tsuji-giri | To try out a new sword on a passer-by | Japanese | action violence | |
Nementia | Feeling nervous or anxious in your own skin | English | feeling adverse | |
Jouska | A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head | English | thinking | |
Zanshin (残心) | Lit. ‘remaining/enduring heart-mind’; a state of relaxed mental alertness (especially in the face of danger or stress). | Japanese | awareness | |
chimak | Chicken and beer | Korean | food | |
Rire dans sa barbe | To laugh in your beard quietly while thinking about something that has happened | French | funny reflection action | |
Löyly | The steam that rises from the sauna heater when water is thrown on it | Finnish | physical | |
moņ (моң) | Sadness; melody; lyricism | Bashkir | adverse music | |
Vorführeffekt | When you try to give some evidence in public that something works (or doesn't work), but you fail because the opposite happens. | German | funny event | |
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 | |
Nonina | Andalusian expression of three negations to say yes but with a certain touch, as if wanting to mean that this is not even doubted. | Spanish | cultural | |
L’ecole stratim (לאכול סרטים) | Literally "to eat motives"; describing a person that loves drama | Yiddish | extreme interaction | |
Overskud | Extra/excess energy; do have sufficient resources to do something; profit (in an economic context). | Danish | attribute | |
Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits | |
On-nomi | The practice of getting together with friends on the internet and having a drink together | Japanese | friends | |
Sumud (صمود) | steadfastness, a determined struggle to persist. | Arabic | growth strength | |
Punya | “Merit,” “virtue”, “sacred", "good karma", among other things | Sanskrit | beauty | |
Siftah | First sale of the day for merchant | Turkish | event | |
Firgun (פירגון) | Ungrudging and overt (expressed) pride and happiness at other's successes. | Hebrew | happiness | |
Ludus | playful love between children or casual lovers | Greek | love | |
Philotimo (φιλότιμο) | The inner impulse to act well and in alignment with the moral virtues that represent one's own society and upbringing | Greek | society character family | |
Kos | Cosiness, warmth, intimacy; kose as a verb; koselig as an adjective. | Norwegian | attribute | |
Empalagoso | Too sweet. Adjective to say you ate something so sweet that you got sick of it. | Spanish | food adverse change | |
Fahrvergnügen | The love of simply driving | German | adventure happiness | |
Sisu | Extraordinary determination in the fact of adversity | Finnish | growth strength | |
Décidément | When coincidences occur or when events repeat themselves by chance (for example, when you run into the same person many times in one week) | French | surprise interaction fate | |
Shouganai | It cannot be helped. | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
Rabenmutter | A bad mom ("raven mother") | German | family society adverse |
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