Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Biritululo | The act of comparing yams to settle a dispute | Kiriwani | food thinking | |
Beau geste | A gesture noble in its nature or intention but ultimately meaningless in substance | French | action | |
Estrenar | The experience of wearing something for the first time | Spanish | life | |
Eunoia (εὔνοια) | A well-mind; beautiful thinking | Greek | beauty thinking | |
Siftah | First sale of the day for merchant | Turkish | event | |
Efkar | The boredom of the soul. A lovely moment, that you need to be so happy, but instead you feel with a deep sorrow. | Turkish | feeling adverse | |
Zapoi | 2+ days of drunkenness usually involving a journey or waking up in an unexpected place | Russian | funny adverse habits | |
Limerence | the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily and characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation of one's feelings but not primarily for a sexual relationship. | English | emotion love | |
Desenrascar | An informal word that means the act of figuring out things | Portuguese | thinking growth | |
Recherché | Rare, exotic, unusual; not understood or appreciated by many people. | French | beauty attribute | |
Abhayamudrâ (अभय मुद्रा) | The gesture (e.g., in Hindu and Buddhist iconography) of fearlessness, protection, and/or peace; involves the palms facing outwards, and the fingers extending upwards. | Sanskrit | strength | |
Ubuntu | A quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity. | Zulu | beauty character awareness | |
Jaksaa | A lack of enthusiasm to do something | Finnish | adverse habits | |
Gemes | The state of going out of one's mind in adoration of something that is extremely likeable or cute | Indonesian | funny emotion | |
Jugaad (जुगाड) | the ability to 'make do' or 'get by'. | Hindi | life | |
Philotimo (φιλότιμο) | The inner impulse to act well and in alignment with the moral virtues that represent one's own society and upbringing | Greek | society character family | |
Trennungsagentur | Literal: "separation agent"; A man hired by women to break the news to their boyfriends that they are breaking up | German | action | |
Khaste Nabashid (خسته نباشید) | "I hope that you are not tired" | Persian | society work | |
Dørstokkmila | The longest mile between your cozy couch in your fireplace-candlelight-cabin-hygge and the door threshold. It would be "door-threshold-mile", loosely translated | Norwegian | nature | |
Frostbeule | Someone that is very sensitive to cold. That friend that always feels cold. ("frost bite") | German | attribute friends | |
Uitbuiken | Literally means giving your belly or stomach space to expand after a proper dinner. It signifies being so full that you really have to go lay down and ''uitbuiken''. | Dutch | food action | |
Kokoro | A unity of mind and heart. | Japanese | awareness feeling | |
Tartle | The act of hesitating while introducing someone because you've forgotten their name | Scottish | funny event friends | |
Talaka | Every member of a neighborhood getting together to do a work for free for a poor member of their community | Nogay | community connection | |
Aeipathy | A continued passion; an unyielding disease | English | persistence | |
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 | |
Lítost | Sate of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery. | Czech | adverse awareness fate | |
Lieko | A tree trunk that has fallen to the bottom of a lake | Finnish | nature | |
Poka-Yoke | Any mechanism in any process that helps an equipment operator avoid (yokeru) mistakes (poka) | Japanese | work process | |
Athazagoraphobia | The fear of forgetting, being forgotten or ignored, or being replaced | English | reflection thinking |
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