Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tatemae & Honne | The contrast between a person's feelings and desires (honne) versus the behavior and opinions one displays in public (tatemae) | Japanese | feeling reflection character | |
| Mahj | Looking beautiful after having a disease | Persian | beauty change | |
| Verschlimmbesserung | An attempt at improvement that makes things worse than they already were | German | adverse | |
| Ignōrāmus | Lit. ‘we do not know’ (e.g., the spirit of scientific enquiry), or ‘we take no notice of’ (used in legal contexts, e.g., when deemed evidence to be inadmissible). | Latin | philosophy growth | |
| Philoxenia (Φιλοξενία) | Love of strangers, guests; a hospitable act of welcome. | Greek | society | |
| Töörõõm | work fun': finding the simple joys in everyday tasks. | Estonian | work feeling | |
| Zechpreller | A person who leaves a restaurant without paying | German | adverse action food | |
| Geis | Taboo, prohibition; injunction; something you do (or don’t do), upon which your life depends, or which defines your life. | Irish | change fate | |
| Frustfressen | Excessive eating because of frustration | German | food adverse habits | |
| Bon vivant | Someone who enjoys and appreciates the good life. | French | positive happiness | |
| Nunchi | The art of listening to a person and identifying his or her moods or emotions. The literal combination of "eye" and measure" | Korean | interaction connection emotion | |
| Frostbeule | Someone that is very sensitive to cold. That friend that always feels cold. ("frost bite") | German | attribute friends | |
| Kos | Cosiness, warmth, intimacy; kose as a verb; koselig as an adjective. | Norwegian | attribute | |
| Aduantas | Describes the angst that comes with being in an unfamiliar place and among unfamiliar people | Irish | stress change | |
| Hinna | "To find the time” or “to be on time” | Swedish | time | |
| Parea | A group of friends who regularly gather together to share their experiences about life, their philosophies, values and ideas. | Greek | friends philosophical | |
| Nehrotit to | Literal: “Not to make X into a sharp point"; a choice not to stress about something | Czech | stress happiness | |
| L’ecole stratim (לאכול סרטים) | Literally "to eat motives"; describing a person that loves drama | Yiddish | extreme interaction | |
| Werifesteria | To wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery | English | nature explore | |
| Gretchenfrage | A direct question with the intention of unveiling the underlying thoughts of the person being questioned | German | awareness connection | |
| Jootha | Food eaten by someone and left in the plate | Hindi | food | |
| Zapoi | 2+ days of drunkenness usually involving a journey or waking up in an unexpected place | Russian | funny adverse habits | |
| Volta | During certain hours of the early evening, around dusk, everyone in the town who might feel like going for a walk takes a saunter or stroll up and down the main street | Greek | time physical nature | |
| Psithurism | The sound of wind through trees | English | nature beauty | |
| Schnapsleiche | So who passed out drunk ("liquor corpse") | German | adverse event friends | |
| Wú (無) | Negative, void, nothingness, non-being; can imply 'neither yes nor no'. | Chinese | adverse | |
| Ubuntu | A quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity. | Zulu | beauty character awareness | |
| Zažitjsja (зажиться) | To keep living beyond the point where one feels they would be better off dead | Russian | death adverse | |
| Löyly | The steam that rises from the sauna heater when water is thrown on it | Finnish | physical | |
| Nadryv | When a person releases intimate, deeply hidden feelings, sometimes that do not truly exist; imaginary, excessively exaggerated and distorted feelings | Russian | emotion extreme |
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