Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Wú jí (無極) | Lit. without highest point, utmost point, ridgepole; ultimate, boundless, limitless; the primodial universe; original nature. | Chinese | measurement | |
Ludus | playful love between children or casual lovers | Greek | love | |
Dhakkann | "The shroud of clouds concealed the sun." Someone too naive to see the truth in things, also used in a derogatory way | Hindi | adverse awareness | |
Layogenic | Good looking from a distance | Tagalog | visual | |
Milozvučan | Having a sweet and gentle voice | Croatian | attribute physical | |
Riposo | Rest, repose; a nap; cf. siesta. | Italian | event society | |
Ǩuẓlanyu | To marry a divorced woman | Bashkir | family attribute | |
Être dépaysé | To be in an environment you're not used to | French | change society awareness | |
Tuntuvar | The day before a wedding | Nogay | time event | |
Bimyou | Not bad, or "meh" | Japanese | attribute | |
Kombinować | to conspire/try to resolve a problem with unusual methods or through connections | Polish | creative action | |
Nepenthe | Something that helps you forget grief or suffering | Greek | growth strength | |
Abditory | A place into which you can disappear; a hiding place | English | physical thinking | |
Toska (тоска) | At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. | Russian | adverse philosophy | |
Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
Trennungsagentur | Literal: "separation agent"; A man hired by women to break the news to their boyfriends that they are breaking up | German | action | |
Recherché | Rare, exotic, unusual; not understood or appreciated by many people. | French | beauty attribute | |
Faamiti | The sound made by sucking air past the lips in order to gain the attention of a dog or child | Samoan | sound | |
Xiao xiao | The whistling and pattering of rain or wind | Chinese | nature beauty sound | |
Jia You (加油) | Literally translated to mean "add oil", Jia You means something along the lines of "give'er hell", used in the same way "good luck" is often applied in English | Chinese | strength interaction | |
Morgenfrisk | Feeling rested after a good night's sleep | Danish | health physical | |
chimak | Chicken and beer | Korean | food | |
Wabi-sabi | Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. | Japanese | beauty awareness | |
Wú (無) | Negative, void, nothingness, non-being; can imply 'neither yes nor no'. | Chinese | adverse | |
Lha’i rnal ‘byor (ལྷའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར) | Deity meditation/yoga; an advanced practice in which one visualises interacting with, or ‘accomplishing’ (i.e., being), a deity. | Tibetan | awareness physical | |
Buksvåger | Literally means "abdomen brothers-in-law"; used for two men who have slept with the same woman | Swedish | physical | |
Orphic | Mysterious and entertaining; beyond ordinary understanding | English | reflection | |
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 | |
Nodus tollens | The realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore. | English | philosophy awareness life | |
Haiku (俳句) | A form of Japanese poetry, usually just 17 syllables long (with lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables), involving the sudden juxtapositions of ideas or images, and often focused on natural (e.g., seasonal) phenomena. | Japanese | art |
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