Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Kabelsalat | Tangled up cables; literally “cable-salad" | German | funny physical | |
Uzsonna | A meal between lunch and dinner | Hungarian | food time | |
Madrugada | The time of day occurring between past midnight and early morning | Spanish | time measurement | |
Dreich | Especially of weather: dreary, bleak. For example, "a cold, dreich early April day" | Scottish | weather adverse | |
Eudaimonia | The contented happy state you feel when you travel | Greek | travel explore happiness | |
Trennungsagentur | Literal: "separation agent"; A man hired by women to break the news to their boyfriends that they are breaking up | German | action | |
Zindabad | A shout of encouragement; a cheer, which can also be interpreted to mean "may [idea or person] live forever" | Urdu | life interaction | |
Utura-utura (うつらうつら) | To drift between sleep and wakefulness. | Japanese | event time phsyical | |
Hikikomori | Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement | Japanese | society | |
Nuchshlepper | Someone who follows another person; a hanger-on | Yiddish | awareness adverse persistence | |
Utepils | The act of sitting outside on a sunny day enjoying a beer | Norwegian | event life positive | |
Kos | Cosiness, warmth, intimacy; kose as a verb; koselig as an adjective. | Norwegian | attribute | |
Chantepleurer | Singng and crying simultaneously | French | action | |
Tüddelig | Sweet, elderly, and senile | German | character | |
Dor | The heartbreak and sense of longing you feel because you’re separated from your love | Romanian | love adverse | |
Gurfa | The amount of water that can be scooped up in a hand. | Arabic | measurement | |
Fika | Coffee and cake break with friends or colleagues | Swedish | food friends | |
sobremesa | After-dinner conversation | Spanish | food friends | |
Weltschmerz | Feeling hopeless about the state our world is currently in ("world pain") | German | adverse society | |
Gula | Gluttony, greed; indulgence; eating simply for the taste (i.e., not from hunger). | Spanish | adverse | |
Filotimo | A friend of honour, but it also implies dignity, pride, sacrifice and respect | Greek | character friends | |
Sisu | Extraordinary determination in the fact of adversity | Finnish | growth strength | |
Capicua | A number that doesn't vary if the numbers are inverted. Also it can be called a palindrome, but the word capicua refers especially to the numbers | Catalan | measurement | |
Fika | Drinking coffee along with eating something sweet | Swedish | food society | |
Nakhur | A camel that won't give milk until her nostrils have been tickled | Persian | nature | |
Engili (ఎంగిలి) | Having contacted another's mouth directly or indirectly via hand or utensil that is not fit for consumption. | Telugu | adverse food | |
Rire dans sa barbe | To laugh in your beard quietly while thinking about something that has happened | French | funny reflection action | |
Gongoozler | A person who enjoys watching activity on the canals of the United Kingdom. The term is also used more generally to describe those who harbour an interest in canals and canal life, but do not actively participate. | English | action nature | |
Warmduscher | Literal: 'A person that takes warm showers'; to describe those who have trouble stepping out of their comfort zone | German | funny attribute growth | |
Morgenfrisk | Feeling rested after a good night's sleep | Danish | health physical |
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