Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entzuterre | A distance that allows you to listen to another conversation | Basque | interaction | |
| Aesthete | Someone with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature | English | art beauty | |
| Kairosclerosis | A moment in which you realize that you're happy but simultaneously destroy that happiness by overthinking it | English | happiness reflection change | |
| Kummerspeck | Weight you gain because you're unhappy ("sorrow bacon") | German | food adverse habits | |
| sobremesa | After-dinner conversation | Spanish | food friends | |
| Ilunga | The capacity to forgive once, tolerate a second time, but never a third time. Conveys the progression toward intolerance. | Tshiluba | growth emotion reflection | |
| Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action | |
| Oneirataxia | The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality | English | awareness feeling | |
| Kombinować | to conspire/try to resolve a problem with unusual methods or through connections | Polish | creative action | |
| Raspafiestas | An adjective to describe a person who doesn't go until the party is over. | Spanish | habits attribute friends | |
| Gula | Gluttony, greed; indulgence; eating simply for the taste (i.e., not from hunger). | Spanish | adverse | |
| Klexos | the art of dwelling on the past; coined by John Koenig. | English | thinking | |
| Faamiti | The sound made by sucking air past the lips in order to gain the attention of a dog or child | Samoan | sound | |
| L'esprit de l'escalier | Thinking of the perfect reply after the conversation is over. | French | friends interaction | |
| Guān xì (關係) | Cultivating relationships; reciprocal connections; networking; social karma. | Chinese | society friends | |
| Sonder | the realization that everyone has a life as vivid and complex as your own); coined by John Koenig. | English | philosophy awareness | |
| Nedoperepitj (недоперепить) | To drink more than one should have, but less than one would have wanted. To fail to drink too much. | Russian | funny action | |
| Startijenn | A kickstart/boost of energy; also denotes perseverance. | Breton | strength | |
| Cynefin | A place where a person or an animal feels it ought to live and belong; it is where nature around you feels right and welcoming | Welsh | nature feeling | |
| Talkoot | a collectively pursued/undertaken task; voluntary community work. | Finnish | event society | |
| Eunoia | A well-mind; beautiful thinking | Greek | beauty | |
| Jumpa | To jump from one floating piece of ice to another | Swedish | physical nature | |
| Rückkehrunruhe | The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness. | German | awareness time | |
| Pålägg | Anything that you can put in a sandwich | Swedish | food attribute | |
| Tartle | The act of hesitating while introducing someone because you've forgotten their name | Scottish | funny event friends | |
| Mbuki-mvuki | To shake off your clothes to dance more freely | Swahili | clothing music | |
| Bababa ba? | Is it going down? (In the context of an elevator) | Tagalog | action | |
| Gambiarra | A very poor or ugly but effective solution for a problem; to use improvised methods / solutions to solve a problem, with any avaiable material | Portuguese | creative | |
| Kenshō (見性) | Seeing (ken) one’s nature or essence (shō); perceiving one’s Buddha nature; sometimes interpreted as an initial or brief awakening. | Japanese | awareness growth | |
| Monachopsis | The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place | English | awareness society |
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