Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Exulansis | The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. | English | emotion thinking | |
Acedia | Lack of concern over your spiritual life or "mental sloth" | Greek | emotion religion | |
Sonder | the realization that everyone has a life as vivid and complex as your own); coined by John Koenig. | English | philosophy awareness | |
Viraag | The emotional pain felt from being away from the person you love | Hindi | emotion love connection | |
Aka'aka'a | Skin peeling or falling off after either sunburn or heavy drinking | Hawaiian | physical adverse | |
Saucer | To mop up the sauce from your plate with a piece of bread | French | action food | |
Innerer Schweinehund | Literal: 'Inner pig dog'; the lazy voice in your head. It symbolizes the part of you that doesn’t want to go jogging, that prefers staying at home with chocolate and pizza and is just generally lazy. | German | feeling life health | |
Anecdoche | A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening. | English | friends life | |
Treppenwitz | Literal: "staircase joke", because the witty retort usually hits you in the stairwell on your way out | German | funny | |
A'ama | Someone who speaks rapidly, hiding their meaning from one person while communicating it to another | Hawaiian | interaction | |
Hygge | A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being. | Danish | life feeling | |
Weemoed | Lit. sadness, woe (wee) courage, daring, mood (moed); soft mood; light melancholy; having the strength to overcome a feeling of sorrow (e.g., arising in relation to nostalgia). | Dutch | adverse growth | |
Ehvenişer | When choosing between bad things, the lesser of two evils. | Turkish | philosophy | |
Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
Chimuela | a person lacking one or more teeth | Spanish | physical funny | |
Rückkehrunruhe | The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness. | German | awareness time | |
Extrawurst | Someone who is slowing things down by being fussy, making everything more complicated than necessary | German | stress adverse action | |
Consuegro | Father in law of your son | Spanish | family | |
Rè nào (熱鬧) | Not only fun and lively, but also has a special vibe that makes everyone want to be there. | Chinese | positive music | |
poshlost (пошлость) | Used to describe situations where things are being sold under the premise "that the greatest joy can be bought" | Russian | adverse extreme | |
Sortable | adj. Someone you can take out without fear of being embarrassed, usually used to refer to friends or family members. e.g. "Elle n'est pas sortable." | French | friends interaction society | |
La douleur exquise | The pain that comes from wanting someone you can’t have | French | feeling awareness love | |
Fika | Drinking coffee along with eating something sweet | Swedish | food society | |
Rubatosis | The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat | English | physical health awareness | |
Tretår | A second refill or “threefill” of coffee | Swedish | measurement food | |
Boketto (ぼけっと) | gazing vacantly into the distance (without thought or sense of self). | Japanese | ||
Hissikablelvuku | To sense something before it actually happens | Turkish | fate time | |
Mokita | The truth we all know but agree not to talk about. | Kilivila | awareness thinking society | |
Trasnochar | To stay up all night | Spanish | life time event | |
Liberosis | The desire to care less about things. | English | thinking awareness |
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