Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Friluftsliv | “Free air life,” signifying a fundamental understanding of the positive impact of being in nature | Norwegian | nature health | |
Nameer (نمير) | Clear water. | Arabic | nature attribute | |
Fuubutsushi | The things – feelings, scents, images – that evoke memories or anticipation for a particular season. | Japanese | time | |
Aspaldiko! | Expression of surprise after not seeing someone for a long time. | Basque | surprise feeling | |
Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
Vprikusku | Drinking tea through pieces of sugar | Russian | food action | |
Mecnun | "madly in love" to the point of actual mental instability | Turkish | love emotion | |
Dhurna | Extorting payment from someone by sitting at their front door and staying there until you get paid | Hindi | action persistence | |
Pretoogjes | Lit. 'fun eyes'; the twinkling eyes of someone engaging in benign mischief or fun. | Dutch | attribute phsyical | |
Jein | Yes and no | German | attribute measurement | |
Shinrin-yoku (森林浴) | bathing' in the forest (literally and/or metaphorically). | Japanese | nature event | |
Dor | The heartbreak and sense of longing you feel because you’re separated from your love | Romanian | love adverse | |
Pochemuchka | A person who asks a lot of questions | Russian | friends attribute habits | |
Sphallolalia | Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere. | English | love life | |
Jumpa | To jump from one floating piece of ice to another | Swedish | physical nature | |
Aeipathy | A continued passion; an unyielding disease | English | persistence | |
Yokomeshi | Literal: "meal eaten sideways"; the stress caused by speaking a foreign language | Japanese | stress feeling awareness | |
O ka la nokonoko | A day spent in nervous anticipation of a coughing spell | Hawaiian | thinking health stress | |
Exulansis | The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. | English | emotion thinking | |
Vagary | An unpredictable instance, a wandering journey, a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action | English | change | |
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 | |
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 | |
Minestra riscaldata | Literally "heated soup"; something done again but never as good as the first time it happened. Alternative to cavoli riscaldati (heated cabbage) | Italian | attribute | |
Guddle | To fish using the hands, by searching under stones at a river bank | Scottish | action nature | |
Overskud | Extra/excess energy; do have sufficient resources to do something; profit (in an economic context). | Danish | attribute | |
Ramé | Something that is both chaotic and joyful at the same time | Indonesian | life attribute | |
Schnapsleiche | So who passed out drunk ("liquor corpse") | German | adverse event friends | |
Débrouille | May be synonymous with resourceful, but it is more of a way of living by making do with little and improvising with what you have | French | creative | |
Milozvučan | Having a sweet and gentle voice | Croatian | attribute physical | |
Istories me arkoudes | Literal: 'stories with bears'; stories that are so crazy, they can't be true | Greek | extreme funny |
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