Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhurna | Extorting payment from someone by sitting at their front door and staying there until you get paid | Hindi | action persistence | |
| Abquatulate | To leave without saying goodbye | English | action | |
| Adronitis | Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone | English | friends connection | |
| Nepenthe | Something that helps you forget grief or suffering | Greek | growth strength | |
| Eldsjäl | This noun is literally ‘fire-soul’, but the actual meaning is ‘enthusiast’ or ‘driving spirit’. | Swedish | strength | |
| Kinkartvyavimudh | Helplessness due to being duty-bound | Hindi | feeling | |
| Frustfressen | Excessive eating because of frustration | German | food adverse habits | |
| Ninot | A ninot is a figure with human representation. In a conversation, it means a person without personality. | Valencian | attribute | |
| Nintendo | “Leave luck to heaven” or to leave one's fortune in the hands of fate | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
| Haiku (俳句) | A form of Japanese poetry, usually just 17 syllables long (with lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables), involving the sudden juxtapositions of ideas or images, and often focused on natural (e.g., seasonal) phenomena. | Japanese | art | |
| Guanxi (关系) | An intimate connection between people which would benefit from the other in solving delicate problems or in achieving personal goals | Chinese | growth connection | |
| Oodal | Overly exaggerated, fake anger that follows a lovers’ quarrel | Tamil | love event feeling | |
| 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 | |
| कौतुक (Kautuk) | What is required is steady, constructive effort, not lightning speed and empty show | Marathi | philosophy persistence | |
| Vellichor | The strange wistfulness of used bookshops | English | feeling | |
| Bababa ba? | Is it going down? (In the context of an elevator) | Tagalog | action | |
| Akrasia | When you know what to do in theory, but don’t act on it in practice. The literal translation is “weakness of will.” Akrasia is how people struggle to take action, even though the Internet gives them unlimited information. | Greek | philosophy attribute | |
| Enxebre | Something pure and very authentic | Galician | positive attribute | |
| Vergüenza ajena | Shame or embarrassment felt as a result of the actions of others | Spanish | adverse feeling | |
| Otium | The condition of being in control of one’s own time; leisure, free-time; ease, peace. | Latin | growth time habits | |
| Nito-onna | A woman so dedicated to her career that she has no time to iron blouses, so dresses only in knitted tops. | Japanese | society work | |
| Mechaye | Joy, pleasure; something that gives great joy/pleasure. | Yiddish | positive | |
| 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 | |
| Gaupasa | Spend the whole night partying until the early morning of the next day. | Basque | interaction exciting | |
| Tîeow (เที่ยว) | To wander or roam around in a carefree way. | Thai | travel positive change | |
| Utura-utura (うつらうつら) | To drift between sleep and wakefulness. | Japanese | event time phsyical | |
| Selcouth | Rare, strange, marvellous, wondrous. | English | attribute | |
| Angushti za'id | Someone with six fingers | Persian | physical | |
| Jootha | Food eaten by someone and left in the plate | Hindi | food | |
| Pochemuchka | A person who asks a lot of questions | Russian | friends attribute habits |
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