Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Vemödalen | The fear that everything has already been done. For example: the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist. | English | philosophy awareness art | |
Eunoia (εὔνοια) | A well-mind; beautiful thinking | Greek | beauty thinking | |
Viitsima | To overcome laziness as the last or only obstacle to do something. | Estonian | persistence strength | |
Seny | Common sense, is a form of ancestral Catalan wisdom or sensibleness. It involves well-pondered perception of situations, level-headedness, awareness, integrity, and right action | Catalan | positive character | |
Utepils | The act of sitting outside on a sunny day enjoying a beer | Norwegian | event life positive | |
Empalagoso | Too sweet. Adjective to say you ate something so sweet that you got sick of it. | Spanish | food adverse change | |
Kintsukuroi | To repair with gold. Understanding that a piece is more beautiful for having broken. | Japanese | beauty change | |
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 | |
Merienda | It's something you eat between lunch and dinner (sandwich, fruit...). At 6pm or so. Kids never miss it. | Spanish | food event | |
Naz | The pride that comes from knowing that you are loved no matter what you do | Urdu | love strength positive | |
Warmduscher | Literal: 'A person that takes warm showers'; to describe those who have trouble stepping out of their comfort zone | German | funny attribute growth | |
Üşenmek | To be too lazy to do something | Turkish | energy | |
Qì (氣) | Lit. air, breath; ‘life force/energy’. | Chinese | health awareness | |
Geis | Taboo, prohibition; injunction; something you do (or don’t do), upon which your life depends, or which defines your life. | Irish | change fate | |
sobremesa | After-dinner conversation | Spanish | food friends | |
Ilunga | The capacity to forgive once, tolerate a second time, but never a third time. Conveys the progression toward intolerance. | Tshiluba | growth emotion reflection | |
Chrysalism | An amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm. | English | nature beauty | |
Rizq | Life's provision of account. Often used in daily speech when someone wasn’t able to achieve something, it wasn’t in their Rizq. | Urdu | philosophy connection | |
Pålegg | Anything that you can put in a sandwich | Norwegian | food | |
Volya (Воля) | "Freedom" and "will", but also vast natural landscape | Russian | nature beauty | |
Kæk | Spirited, bold, cheeky, cocky. | Danish | attribute | |
Sokaiya | A man with a few shares in several companies who extorts money by threatening to come to the shareholders' meetings and cause trouble | Japanese | adverse | |
kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
Recherché | Rare, exotic, unusual; not understood or appreciated by many people. | French | beauty attribute | |
Forelsket | The euphoria you feel when you're first falling in love. | Norwegian | love feeling change | |
Bwisit | Something/someone ruined your day or mood | Tagalog | emotion adverse | |
Gezellig | A warm feeling of cozyness, but also have good times with friends af a party. | Dutch | feeling positive | |
Pantoffelheld | Literally "slipper hero"; A man who may act tough in front of his friends but can’t stand up for himself against his wife | German | family interaction | |
Werifesteria | To wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery | English | nature explore | |
Kusukusu | The suppressed giggling and tittering of a group of women | Japanese | sound friends funny |
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