Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firgun (פירגון) | Ungrudging and overt (expressed) pride and happiness at other's successes. | Hebrew | happiness | |
| Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
| Luftmensch | Literal: "air person". Refers to someone who is a bit of a dreamer | Yiddish | attribute | |
| Lieko | A tree trunk that has fallen to the bottom of a lake | Finnish | nature | |
| Sankocha | The feeling of embarrassment due to receiving an inordinate or extravagent gift/favor, making you feel as though you need to return a favor that you can't | Kannada | feeling | |
| Jafjafa (جفجفة) | The sound of new clothes. | Arabic | attribute life | |
| Saucer | To mop up the sauce from your plate with a piece of bread | French | action food | |
| Mimoso | Said of something that enjoys being pampered or shown affection | Spanish | attribute love | |
| Nou-nou | An indefinite time in the near future. It could be very near, like within a minute or two, or not so very near, like within an hour or three. This time-telling isn't an exact science at all—it's a non-committal way of giving someone a time. | Afrikaans | time | |
| Tîeow (เที่ยว) | To wander or roam around in a carefree way. | Thai | travel positive change | |
| Rhwe | To sleep on the floor without a carpet, drunk and naked | Tsonga | funny event | |
| Overskud | Extra/excess energy; do have sufficient resources to do something; profit (in an economic context). | Danish | attribute | |
| Wú (無) | Negative, void, nothingness, non-being; can imply 'neither yes nor no'. | Chinese | adverse | |
| Guddle | To fish using the hands, by searching under stones at a river bank | Scottish | action nature | |
| Shouganai | It cannot be helped. | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
| Parea | A group of friends who regularly gather together to share their experiences about life, their philosophies, values and ideas. | Greek | friends philosophical | |
| Hygge | A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being. | Danish | life feeling | |
| Occhiolism | The awareness of the smallness of your perspective | English | awareness life society | |
| Abendrot | The colour of the sky when the sun is setting | German | nature beauty | |
| Saper vivere | The ability to handle people and situations with charm, diplomacy and verve; cf. savior faire (French). | Italian | friends attribute | |
| Obhimaan (অভিমান ) | Anger, or something close to it, at being upset with a loved one. Abhiman is not anger or sorrow. It is a temporary expression of a feeling about a loved one that he or she is supposed to address. | Bengali | adverse feeling | |
| Kuebiko | A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence | Japanese | adverse feeling | |
| Seigneur-terrasse | Someone who spends time, but not money, at a café | French | funny life | |
| Weemoed | Lit. sadness, woe (wee) courage, daring, mood (moed); soft mood; light melancholy; having the strength to overcome a feeling of sorrow (e.g., arising in relation to nostalgia). | Dutch | adverse growth | |
| Werifesteria | To wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery | English | nature explore | |
| Poka-Yoke | Any mechanism in any process that helps an equipment operator avoid (yokeru) mistakes (poka) | Japanese | work process | |
| Pulsa | To walk laboriously in snow. | Swedish | physical nature | |
| Egyszer volt budán kutyavásár | Literal: "there was a dog-market in Buda only once"; translates to essentially a once in a lifetime opportunity | Hungarian | life fate exciting | |
| Dreikäsehoch | A small child who is as tall as three wheels of cheese stacked upon one another | German | measurement food | |
| Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction |
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