Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Egyszer volt budán kutyavásár | Literal: "there was a dog-market in Buda only once"; translates to essentially a once in a lifetime opportunity | Hungarian | life fate exciting | |
Umay | Gettiing tired of a certain food | Tagalog | food | |
Toska (тоска) | At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. | Russian | adverse philosophy | |
Verklempt | Completely overcome with emotion | Yiddish | emotion | |
Bon vivant | Someone who enjoys and appreciates the good life. | French | positive happiness | |
Latah | Uncontrollable habit of saying embarrassing things | Indonesian | habits | |
Ikigai | A reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning. | Japanese | growth happiness | |
Vagary | An unpredictable instance, a wandering journey, a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action | English | change | |
Dhurna | Extorting payment from someone by sitting at their front door and staying there until you get paid | Hindi | action persistence | |
Salām (سلام) | Peace, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity; used also as a greeting/parting salutation. | Arabic | positive | |
Wú (無) | Negative, void, nothingness, non-being; can imply 'neither yes nor no'. | Chinese | adverse | |
Trasnochar | To stay up all night | Spanish | life time event | |
Oneirataxia | The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality | English | awareness feeling | |
Dépayser | Disorientation; not necessarily unpleasant (e.g., a pleasant sense of strangeness from being in a foreign country). | French | change feeling | |
Odnoliub | Someone who has only one love in his or her life; someone who is capable of loving only one at a time | Russian | love fate | |
Badkruka | Someone who refuses to enter a body of water. Eg. Get in the lake you badkruka, or am I going to have to pull you in by your beard? | Swedish | funny nature explore | |
Arbejdsglæde | Literally "work happiness"; the feeling of happiness provoked by a satisfying job | Danish | work happiness feeling | |
Frustfressen | Excessive eating because of frustration | German | food adverse habits | |
Dayenu | "It would have been enough" | Hebrew | reflection | |
Kuidare | To eat yourself into backruptcy | Japanese | food funny | |
Sisu | Extraordinary determination in the fact of adversity | Finnish | growth strength | |
Schlemiel | An inept, clumsy person | Yiddish | attribute funny | |
Chutzpah | Insolence, cheek, audacity. Commonly used to describe someone when they have crossed the line of acceptable behavior | Yiddish | extreme | |
Consuegro | Father in law of your son | Spanish | family | |
Vemödalen | The fear that everything has already been done. For example: the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist. | English | philosophy awareness art | |
Eudaimonia | The contented happy state you feel when you travel | Greek | travel explore happiness | |
Nakhur | A camel that won't give milk until her nostrils have been tickled | Persian | nature | |
Psithurism | The sound of wind through trees | English | nature beauty | |
Anchorage | The desire to make time stand still | English | time | |
Jafjafa (جفجفة) | The sound of new clothes. | Arabic | attribute life |
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