Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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(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 | |
Bwisit | Something/someone ruined your day or mood | Tagalog | emotion adverse | |
Kuidare | To eat yourself into backruptcy | Japanese | food funny | |
Mysig | To describe anything with an unexpectedly relaxing vibe | Swedish | positive | |
Shalom (שָׁלוֹם) | peace, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity; used also as a greeting/parting salutation. | Hebrew | positive | |
Fachidiot | Someone who knows a great deal about a very narrow subject | German | thinking attribute | |
Talaka | Every member of a neighborhood getting together to do a work for free for a poor member of their community | Nogay | community connection | |
Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
Abendrot | The colour of the sky when the sun is setting | German | nature beauty | |
Ohrwurm | A melody or song that gets stuck in your head ("ear worm") | German | life music | |
Otium | The condition of being in control of one’s own time; leisure, free-time; ease, peace. | Latin | growth time habits | |
Faamiti | The sound made by sucking air past the lips in order to gain the attention of a dog or child | Samoan | sound | |
Üşenmek | To be too lazy to do something | Turkish | energy | |
Löyly | The steam that rises from the sauna heater when water is thrown on it | Finnish | physical | |
Ádvaita (अद्वैत) | non-dual; the notion that there is only one reality. | Sanskrit | measurement philosophy | |
Énouement | The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self. | French | awareness philosophy | |
Innerer Schweinehund | Literal: 'Inner pig dog'; the lazy voice in your head. It symbolizes the part of you that doesn’t want to go jogging, that prefers staying at home with chocolate and pizza and is just generally lazy. | German | feeling life health | |
Chai-Pani | Literal: "tea and water"; the money and favors given to someone to get things done | Hindi | food action | |
Entzuterre | A distance that allows you to listen to another conversation | Basque | interaction | |
Schilderwald | Jungle of traffic signs; a street so crowded with signs that you become lost | German | stress confusion | |
Tôpäj (төпәй) | Interjection that is used to forewarn a child of falling | Bashkir | action | |
Rén (仁) | Humanity, benevolence; the positive feeling enjoyed by a virtuous person through altruistic behaviour. | Chinese | positive | |
Istories me arkoudes | Literal: 'stories with bears'; stories that are so crazy, they can't be true | Greek | extreme funny | |
Vergüenza ajena | Shame or embarrassment felt as a result of the actions of others | Spanish | adverse feeling | |
Lekker | Literal translation "tasty", but can be used to describe anything that has one's hearty approval | Afrikaans | positive attribute | |
Myötähäpeä | Secondhand embarrassment | Finnish | adverse feeling | |
Celístia | Brighness from the stars | Catalan | nature physical | |
Bababa ba? | Is it going down? (In the context of an elevator) | Tagalog | action | |
Sous-entendu | Don't listen to what you heard. Listen for the message embedded. | French | awareness reflection | |
Amaeru | To seek affection through doing things like clinging or pleading | Japanese | persistence |
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