Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Dreich | Especially of weather: dreary, bleak. For example, "a cold, dreich early April day" | Scottish | weather adverse | |
Athazagoraphobia | The fear of forgetting, being forgotten or ignored, or being replaced | English | reflection thinking | |
Oodal | Overly exaggerated, fake anger that follows a lovers’ quarrel | Tamil | love event feeling | |
Latah | Uncontrollable habit of saying embarrassing things | Indonesian | habits | |
kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
Chutzpah | Insolence, cheek, audacity. Commonly used to describe someone when they have crossed the line of acceptable behavior | Yiddish | extreme | |
uḷaṟu (உளறு) | To say something that should not be or to say somethng nonsensical or unrelated | Tamil | awareness adverse | |
Agape | selfless love to all, universal loving kindness | Greek | love connection | |
Onsra | That bittersweet feeling of loving for the last time; the feeling when you already know that a love won't last | Boro | love fate emotion | |
Surströmmingspremier | The first day of the year where it acceptable eat rotten herring. | Swedish | food event | |
Gigil | The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute | Tagalog | physical positive funny | |
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 | |
On-nomi | The practice of getting together with friends on the internet and having a drink together | Japanese | friends | |
Torschlusspanik | The fear that time is running out on achieving life goals | German | growth awareness | |
Trennungsagentur | Literal: "separation agent"; A man hired by women to break the news to their boyfriends that they are breaking up | German | action | |
Khaste Nabashid (خسته نباشید) | "I hope that you are not tired" | Persian | society work | |
En plein air | Outdoors; in the open air. | French | nature physical | |
Mono no aware | The bittersweetness of a brief and grading moment of transcendent beauty. | Japanese | beauty | |
Vergüenza ajena | Shame or embarrassment felt as a result of the actions of others | Spanish | adverse feeling | |
Estrenar | The experience of wearing something for the first time | Spanish | life | |
Mokita | The truth we all know but agree not to talk about. | Kilivila | awareness thinking society | |
Jaksaa | A lack of enthusiasm to do something | Finnish | adverse habits | |
Empalagoso | Too sweet. Adjective to say you ate something so sweet that you got sick of it. | Spanish | food adverse change | |
(يقبرني) Ya'aburnee | A way to declare your hope that your loved one will outlive you because of how unbearable it would be to live without them. | Arabic | love time strength | |
Tokka | A large herd of reindeer | Finnish | nature | |
Petrichor | The smell of earth after rain | English | nature beauty | |
L’chaim (לְחַיִּים) | Lit. ‘to life’. | Hebrew | life | |
Vprikusku | Drinking tea through pieces of sugar | Russian | food action | |
Manja | Childlike behaviour by women designed to elicit sympathy or pampering by men | Malay | attribute | |
Fingerspitzengefühl | Literal: “finger tips feeling", but means an intuitive feel or to have one's finger on the pulse | German | feeling |
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