Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paasa | A person who leads someone on (intentionally or not). Appearing as if they are genuinely interested romantically when they aren’t | Tagalog | adverse interaction awareness | |
| Débrouille | May be synonymous with resourceful, but it is more of a way of living by making do with little and improvising with what you have | French | creative | |
| 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 | |
| Bababa ba? | Is it going down? (In the context of an elevator) | Tagalog | action | |
| Bildung | education, formation, acculturation, cultivation, development. | German | cultural | |
| Être dépaysé | To be in an environment you're not used to | French | change society awareness | |
| Extrawurst | Someone who is slowing things down by being fussy, making everything more complicated than necessary | German | stress adverse action | |
| Backpfeifengesicht | A face in need of a slap | German | physical funny | |
| Załatwić | To make something which is very complicated somehow simpler in an entrepreneurial and cheeky way | Polish | creative action | |
| Cafuné | Tenderly running your fingers through your lover's hair | Portuguese | love | |
| Salām (سلام) | Peace, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity; used also as a greeting/parting salutation. | Arabic | positive | |
| Nja | Combining no (nej) and yes (ja); neither yes or no (or both yes and no); expressing uncertainty. | Swedish | measurement | |
| Goso | When you smell sesame oil - that nutty, flavorful, aromatic - mostly used to describe smells of sesame and/or bean paste | Korean | sensory food | |
| Jootha | Food eaten by someone and left in the plate | Hindi | food | |
| Schnapsdrossel | A person that drinks a lot but rarely gets drunk | German | food habits | |
| Klexos | the art of dwelling on the past; coined by John Koenig. | English | thinking | |
| Presenzialismo | Someone who’s preoccupation is to make appearances at social events; the tendency to be present at every social event in order to get noticed. | Italian | community friends | |
| Épater les bourgeois | To shock the middle classes | French | society surprise extreme | |
| Jouska | A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head | English | thinking | |
| Boketto (ぼけっと) | gazing vacantly into the distance (without thought or sense of self). | Japanese | ||
| Tízórai | A meal between breakfast and lunch, literally "at ten o'clock" | Hungarian | food time | |
| Pneúma (πνεῦμα) | Wind; breath; spirit. | Greek | physical | |
| Vemödalen | The fear that everything has already been done. For example: the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist. | English | philosophy awareness art | |
| Rehepaplus | A kind of entrepreneurialism that mustn't always have the moral high ground. Clever, sometimes at the expense of others and their stupidity. The word can be used as both a positive (quick thinker) as a negative (scammer). | Estonian | character attribute | |
| Goya (گویا) | The transporting suspension of disbelief that can occur in storytelling | Urdu | surprise | |
| Dépayser | Disorientation; not necessarily unpleasant (e.g., a pleasant sense of strangeness from being in a foreign country). | French | change feeling | |
| Selcouth | Rare, strange, marvellous, wondrous. | English | attribute | |
| Gezellig | A warm feeling of cozyness, but also have good times with friends af a party. | Dutch | feeling positive | |
| Manna | A sudden or unexpected help, advantage, or aid to success | English | change positive | |
| Gourmand | One who is excessively fond of eating and drinking. | French | food attribute |
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