Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Siwon | Usually meanng cool or cold, but when used in the context of dining, means the taste which achieves the ideal umami such that the food feels cool | Korean | food attribute | |
Sortable | adj. Someone you can take out without fear of being embarrassed, usually used to refer to friends or family members. e.g. "Elle n'est pas sortable." | French | friends interaction society | |
Vorführeffekt | When you try to give some evidence in public that something works (or doesn't work), but you fail because the opposite happens. | German | funny event | |
Eunoirophrenia | The peace of mind that comes with having pleasant dreams. | Greek | feeling positive | |
Ubuntu | A quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity. | Zulu | beauty character awareness | |
Salām (سلام) | Peace, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity; used also as a greeting/parting salutation. | Arabic | positive | |
Filotimo | A friend of honour, but it also implies dignity, pride, sacrifice and respect | Greek | character friends | |
Shemomedjamo (შემომეჭამა) | To keep eating past the point of being full since the food tastes so good. | Georgian | food | |
Selcouth | Rare, strange, marvellous, wondrous. | English | attribute | |
Anteayer | The day before yesteraday | Spanish | measurement | |
Tulak ng bibig, kabig ng dibdib. | Pretending to dislike something, when it reality you actually like it. Literal translation, "push of the mouth, pull (drawing closer to self) of the chest". | Tagalog | action | |
Dreich | Of weather: extremely dull, miserably dreary, a combination of cloud, rain, fog, wetness and coldness - all at the same time | Scottish | weather adverse | |
Cúbóg | A collection of Easter eggs | Irish | physical | |
Jugaad (जुगाड) | the ability to 'make do' or 'get by'. | Hindi | life | |
Sonder | the realization that everyone has a life as vivid and complex as your own); coined by John Koenig. | English | philosophy awareness | |
Merienda | It's something you eat between lunch and dinner (sandwich, fruit...). At 6pm or so. Kids never miss it. | Spanish | food event | |
Guān xì (關係) | Cultivating relationships; reciprocal connections; networking; social karma. | Chinese | society friends | |
Offing | The deep, distant stretch of the ocean that is still visible from the land; the foreseeable future | English | nature beauty | |
Feierabend | End of the work day | German | event | |
Yakamoz | The reflection of moonlight or other lights on water | Turkish | nature beauty | |
Hissikablelvuku | To sense something before it actually happens | Turkish | fate time | |
Njuta | to deeply enjoy, to profoundly appreciate. | Swedish | positive | |
Półtora | Specific word for one and a half of something | Polish | measurement | |
Spätzünder | A person who needs a long time to understands sth/ so who makes belated progress of personal development | German | adverse | |
Pulsa | To walk laboriously in snow. | Swedish | physical nature | |
Ludus | playful love between children or casual lovers | Greek | love | |
Fingerspitzengefühl | Literal: “finger tips feeling", but means an intuitive feel or to have one's finger on the pulse | German | feeling | |
Ǩuẓlanyu | To marry a divorced woman | Bashkir | family attribute | |
Ayurnamat | The philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed | Inuktitut | philosophy | |
Hatsuyume | The first dream one has in the new year; thought to be an omen | Japanese | feeling |
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