Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Badkruka | Someone who refuses to enter a body of water. Eg. Get in the lake you badkruka, or am I going to have to pull you in by your beard? | Swedish | funny nature explore | |
Magari | maybe, hopeful wish, wistful regret, in my dreams, if only. | Italian | thinking | |
Anteayer | The day before yesteraday | Spanish | measurement | |
Mana | The prestige, power, dominance of something or someone | Māori | attribute | |
Saper vivere | The ability to handle people and situations with charm, diplomacy and verve; cf. savior faire (French). | Italian | friends attribute | |
Lus | Desire, craving; greed; fancy, cupidity; inclination, tendency. | Afrikaans | adverse | |
Kummerspeck | Weight you gain because you're unhappy ("sorrow bacon") | German | food adverse habits | |
Cafuné | Tenderly running your fingers through your lover's hair | Portuguese | love | |
Saudade | melancholic longing, nostalgia, dreaming wistfulness. | Portuguese | life | |
답답하다 Dabdabhae | Literally means stuffy; the feeling of needing to get something off your chest. Or when you want to say something but can't, or an awkward situation where people aren't saying what they mean. | Korean | social feeling | |
Panapoo'o | The act of searching your head in order to help you remember something you have forgotten. | Hawaiian | habits | |
Gulugulu | The sound of a pitcher filling with water | Tulu | physical sound | |
Rire dans sa barbe | To laugh in your beard quietly while thinking about something that has happened | French | funny reflection action | |
कौतुक (Kautuk) | What is required is steady, constructive effort, not lightning speed and empty show | Marathi | philosophy persistence | |
Gula | Gluttony, greed; indulgence; eating simply for the taste (i.e., not from hunger). | Spanish | adverse | |
Að redda | To save someone or fix something in a time sensitive manner. | Icelandic | time | |
Półtora | Specific word for one and a half of something | Polish | measurement | |
chimak | Chicken and beer | Korean | food | |
Xiao xiao | The whistling and pattering of rain or wind | Chinese | nature beauty sound | |
Empalagoso | Too sweet. Adjective to say you ate something so sweet that you got sick of it. | Spanish | food adverse change | |
Karelu | The mark left on the skin by wearing something tight | Tulu | physical | |
Tingo | The act of taking objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them | Pascuense | funny interaction character | |
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 | |
Liberosis | The desire to care less about things. | English | thinking awareness | |
Verklempt | Completely overcome with emotion | Yiddish | emotion | |
Pelinti | To move hot food around in your mouth | Buli | food | |
Pole | Sorry; can also express empathy and understanding. | Swahili | thinking life | |
Shemomedjamo (შემომეჭამა) | To keep eating past the point of being full since the food tastes so good. | Georgian | food | |
Unglücksrabe | An unlucky person (literally: Raven with bad luck) | German | luck adverse | |
Wegbier | A beer you're having on your way somewhere (i.e. a party) | German | friends event food |
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