Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Filotimo | A friend of honour, but it also implies dignity, pride, sacrifice and respect | Greek | character friends | |
Yugen | A profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering. | Japanese | beauty awareness philosophy | |
Badkruka | Someone who refuses to enter a body of water. Eg. Get in the lake you badkruka, or am I going to have to pull you in by your beard? | Swedish | funny nature explore | |
Schwärmerei | Excessive or extreme enthusiasm or sentimentality. | German | happiness | |
Blunda | To close your eyes. Can be used literally or figuratively; refuse to see something. | Swedish | action | |
Kinkartvyavimudh | Helplessness due to being duty-bound | Hindi | feeling | |
S’encoubler | To describe a fall, but specifically one where you fell due to being tangled in something | French | physical event adverse | |
Desenrascar | An informal word that means the act of figuring out things | Portuguese | thinking growth | |
Shemomedjamo (შემომეჭამა) | To keep eating past the point of being full since the food tastes so good. | Georgian | food | |
Numinous | Describing an experience that makes you fearful yet fascinated, awed yet attracted - the powerful, personal feeling of being overwhelmed an inspired | English | beauty emotion | |
Tüddelig | Sweet, elderly, and senile | German | character | |
Beau geste | A gesture noble in its nature or intention but ultimately meaningless in substance | French | action | |
Pochemuchka | A person who asks a lot of questions | Russian | friends attribute habits | |
Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
Metanoia | The journey of changing ones mind, heart, self, or way of life | English | growth change | |
Vozdukh (Воздух) | "Air" but also "the stack of spirit". To breathe in is to "take the spirit inside". | Russian | beauty physical | |
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 | |
En plein air | Outdoors; in the open air. | French | nature physical | |
Maktub | "Everything is destined and written" | Arabic | philosophy fate | |
Bildung | education, formation, acculturation, cultivation, development. | German | cultural | |
Trasnochar | To stay up all night | Spanish | life time event | |
Kummerspeck | Weight you gain because you're unhappy ("sorrow bacon") | German | food adverse habits | |
Overskud | Extra/excess energy; do have sufficient resources to do something; profit (in an economic context). | Danish | attribute | |
Sayang | Describes when you've wasted an opportunity | Tagalog | adverse reflection | |
Spleen | Melancholy without apparent cause | French | feeling | |
Abhisar (অভিসার) | Lit. 'going towards'; a meeting (often secret) between lovers / partners. | Bengali | love event | |
(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 | |
Mauri | The essence that animates something living, but not human | Māori | nature | |
Tatemae & Honne | The contrast between a person's feelings and desires (honne) versus the behavior and opinions one displays in public (tatemae) | Japanese | feeling reflection character | |
Recherché | Rare, exotic, unusual; not understood or appreciated by many people. | French | beauty attribute |
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