Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Tokimeku | A sudden flutter in your heart, or that feeling of inspiration if you’re anticipating something | Japanese | feeling exciting | |
Tjäle | Ground frozen hard, beyond the point where digging is possible | Swedish | physical nature | |
Frischluftfanatiker | literal translation: fresh air fanatic; referring to a person who tends to keep the windows open to get fresh air, even in winter or someone who always tries to be outside in the open air | German | nature | |
moņ (моң) | Sadness; melody; lyricism | Bashkir | adverse music | |
Cafuné | Tenderly running your fingers through your lover's hair | Portuguese | love | |
Schnapsleiche | So who passed out drunk ("liquor corpse") | German | adverse event friends | |
Hanyauku | To walk on tiptoes across a hot surface | Rukwangali | physical action | |
L'esprit de l'escalier | Thinking of the perfect reply after the conversation is over. | French | friends interaction | |
Pena ajena | "I feel embarrassed for you" | Spanish | emotion attribute | |
Capoclaque | Someone who co-ordinates a group of clappers. | Italian | society attribute | |
Eudaimonia | The contented happy state you feel when you travel | Greek | travel explore happiness | |
Wei-wu-wei | "Action without action" or effortless doing; conscious non-action; the deliberate and principled decision to do nothing for a reason. | Chinese | action life | |
Tôpäj (төпәй) | Interjection that is used to forewarn a child of falling | Bashkir | action | |
Baadastoor | Unaltered, or unchanged, for something that is habitual | Urdu | change habits | |
Mauri ora | The essence that animates humans | Nogay | character | |
Volya (Воля) | "Freedom" and "will", but also vast natural landscape | Russian | nature beauty | |
Philia | "highest form of love"; deep love between friends, brotherly love | Greek | love friends | |
Zeitgeist | The "spirit of the time" is what's going on culturally, religiously, or intellectually during a certain period. | German | time society | |
Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
Dépayser | Disorientation; not necessarily unpleasant (e.g., a pleasant sense of strangeness from being in a foreign country). | French | change feeling | |
Lagom | Not too much and not too little | Swedish | measurement | |
desenrascanço | the ability to find improvised solutions to problems | Portuguese | strength attribute life | |
Bon vivant | Someone who enjoys and appreciates the good life. | French | positive happiness | |
Fika | Drinking coffee along with eating something sweet | Swedish | food society | |
Levensgenieter | Someone who loves life deeply; is devoted | Dutch | life happiness positive | |
Boketto (ぼけっと) | gazing vacantly into the distance (without thought or sense of self). | Japanese | ||
Pelinti | To move hot food around in your mouth | Buli | food | |
Polytropos (πολύτροπος) | Much turned, much traveled, much wandering; turning many ways (shifty, versatile, wily) (changeful, complicated) [notoriously used in the opening of The Odyssey as an early challenge for translators] | Greek | explore | |
Kokoro | A unity of mind and heart. | Japanese | awareness feeling | |
Schnickschnack | Items of little value; empty words that people may utter | German | adverse |
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