Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Fika | Coffee and cake break with friends or colleagues | Swedish | food friends | |
Lekker | Literal translation "tasty", but can be used to describe anything that has one's hearty approval | Afrikaans | positive attribute | |
Mātauranga | The comprehension, or understanding of the universe | Nogay | awareness thinking reflection | |
Taraadin | A happy solution for everyone | Arabic | happiness society | |
Chantepleurer | Singng and crying simultaneously | French | action | |
Lítost | Sate of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery. | Czech | adverse awareness fate | |
Uffda | A sympathetic word to be used when someone else is in pain. It combines ‘Ouch for you’ and ‘Oh, I’m sorry you hurt yourself’ | Norwegian | empathy emotion awareness | |
Merienda | It's something you eat between lunch and dinner (sandwich, fruit...). At 6pm or so. Kids never miss it. | Spanish | food event | |
Schnapsidee | An idea so stupid the person must have thought of it while drunk | German | funny thinking creative | |
Kuuki Yomenai | "Cannot read the air” and jokingly applies to people who struggle to read social situations | Japanese | connection confusion | |
Panapoo'o | The act of searching your head in order to help you remember something you have forgotten. | Hawaiian | habits | |
Celístia | Brighness from the stars | Catalan | nature physical | |
Chingada | An imaginary, horrible place where you send all those who annoy you | Spanish | funny adverse character | |
Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine | The longest word in Turkish, meaning, ‘It's as though you are from those whom we may not be able to easily make into a maker of unsucessful ones.’ | Turkish | attribute | |
Gemütlichkeit | An atmosphere of belonging, relaxation, chilled music, great food and drink | German | music food life | |
Volta | During certain hours of the early evening, around dusk, everyone in the town who might feel like going for a walk takes a saunter or stroll up and down the main street | Greek | time physical nature | |
Ennui | A feeling of being bored and mentally tired caused by having nothing interesting or exciting to do | English | adverse feeling | |
Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction | |
On (恩) | A feeling of moral indebtedness, relating to a favour or blessing given by others. | Japanese | life | |
Ignōrāmus | Lit. ‘we do not know’ (e.g., the spirit of scientific enquiry), or ‘we take no notice of’ (used in legal contexts, e.g., when deemed evidence to be inadmissible). | Latin | philosophy growth | |
Drachenfutter | A gift to your significant other as a form of apology | German | love feeling | |
Gattara | A woman catlover who feeds alley cats or spends time with domestic cats | Italian | life society | |
Aeipathy | A continued passion; an unyielding disease | English | persistence | |
Półtora | Specific word for one and a half of something | Polish | measurement | |
Chaval al hazman (חבל אל הזמן) | Literally "shame on time"; referring to an amazing experience that you don't want to end | Hebrew | beauty happiness time | |
Gökotta | To rise at dawn in order to go out and listen to the birds sing | Swedish | nature beauty | |
Pneúma (πνεῦμα) | Wind; breath; spirit. | Greek | physical | |
Zgabalj | Mixture of all the bad things in the world, combined | Serbian | adverse society | |
Acedia | Lack of concern over your spiritual life or "mental sloth" | Greek | emotion religion | |
Pulesveis | Messy hair, in particular in the back of the head, resulting from being rubbed against the pillow during sex | Norwegian | physical |
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