Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Seijaku (静寂) | Quiet (sei) tranquillity (jaku); silence, calm, serenity (especially in the midst of activity or chaos). | Japanese | awareness beauty | |
Pelinti | To move hot food around in your mouth | Buli | food | |
Morriña | Nostalgia that you feel when you are far from home | Galician | feeling awareness life | |
Rhwe | To sleep on the floor without a carpet, drunk and naked | Tsonga | funny event | |
Fahrvergnügen | The love of simply driving | German | adventure happiness | |
Kenjataimu | "wise man's time": The post-orgasmic period when a man's thoughts are no longer impaired by his sexual drive; he is thus likened to a "sage" of clear mind | Japanese | awareness | |
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 | |
Schnapsidee | An idea so stupid the person must have thought of it while drunk | German | funny thinking creative | |
Fanaa (فناء) | Used in a romantic, and spiritual sense. It could also mean breaking free, escaping ego, dying while your material body hasn’t | Urdu | fate love | |
Kummerspeck | Weight you gain because you're unhappy ("sorrow bacon") | German | food adverse habits | |
Oneirataxia | The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality | English | awareness feeling | |
Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits | |
Jafjafa (جفجفة) | The sound of new clothes. | Arabic | attribute life | |
Avoir la molle | A listless unwillingness to do any work | French | adverse | |
Yuputka | A word made for walking in the woods at night, it’s the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin | Ulwa | nature adverse | |
Kusukusu | The suppressed giggling and tittering of a group of women | Japanese | sound friends funny | |
Sonder | the realization that everyone has a life as vivid and complex as your own); coined by John Koenig. | English | philosophy awareness | |
Torschlusspanik | The fear that time is running out on achieving life goals | German | growth awareness | |
Bababa ba? | Is it going down? (In the context of an elevator) | Tagalog | action | |
Ninot | A ninot is a figure with human representation. In a conversation, it means a person without personality. | Valencian | attribute | |
Abhayamudrâ (अभय मुद्रा) | The gesture (e.g., in Hindu and Buddhist iconography) of fearlessness, protection, and/or peace; involves the palms facing outwards, and the fingers extending upwards. | Sanskrit | strength | |
Gemütlichkeit | An atmosphere of belonging, relaxation, chilled music, great food and drink | German | music food life | |
Fika | Coffee and cake break with friends or colleagues | Swedish | food friends | |
Vellichor | The strange wistfulness of used bookshops | English | feeling | |
Autophile | A person that loves solitude, being alone | English | character attribute | |
Cwtch | Wrapping of your arms around someone to make them feel safe in the world | Welsh | love connection | |
Kilig | It is the sudden feeling of an inexplicable joy one gets when something romantic or idealistic occurs; butterflies. | Tagalog | feeling love connection | |
Tuerto | A man with only one eye | Spanish | physical | |
Latah | Uncontrollable habit of saying embarrassing things | Indonesian | habits | |
Seny | Common sense, is a form of ancestral Catalan wisdom or sensibleness. It involves well-pondered perception of situations, level-headedness, awareness, integrity, and right action | Catalan | positive character |
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