Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Aimonomia | Being scared to learn the ‘why’ of something | English | adverse feeling thinking | |
Avspasere | To take a day (or more) off from work (e.g., because one has previously worked overtime and has built up credit). | Norwegian | society time | |
Verklempt | Completely overcome with emotion | Yiddish | emotion | |
Onism | The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits just one place at a time. | English | awareness reflection thinking | |
Titip | To temporarily entrust something to a person | Indonesian | trust | |
Dépaysement | The feeling of being in an environment that you are not used to | French | feeling awareness change | |
Hüzün | Originally pain and sorrow over a loss, but also can mean melancholy associated with a sense of failure in life and a gloomy feeling that things will likely get worse. | Turkish | adverse emotion | |
Nuchshlepper | Someone who follows another person; a hanger-on | Yiddish | awareness adverse persistence | |
Philia | "highest form of love"; deep love between friends, brotherly love | Greek | love friends | |
Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits | |
Xíng qì (行氣) | Volitionally (e.g., mentally) circulating or directing qi. | Chinese | growth awareness strength | |
Jaksaa | A lack of enthusiasm to do something | Finnish | adverse habits | |
Moledro | A feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you'll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away | English | awareness connection | |
Lebensmüde | Weary of life | German | adverse life stress | |
Yokomeshi | Literal: "meal eaten sideways"; the stress caused by speaking a foreign language | Japanese | stress feeling awareness | |
Tinga | Particles of food left between teeth | Tagalog | food physical | |
Otium | The condition of being in control of one’s own time; leisure, free-time; ease, peace. | Latin | growth time habits | |
Wú jí (無極) | Lit. without highest point, utmost point, ridgepole; ultimate, boundless, limitless; the primodial universe; original nature. | Chinese | measurement | |
Nadryv (Надрыв) | Literally means "to tear or break", but can also mean the inner tension of someone who is about to break | Russian | stress emotion | |
Vorführeffekt | When you try to give some evidence in public that something works (or doesn't work), but you fail because the opposite happens. | German | funny event | |
Enxebre | Something pure and very authentic | Galician | positive attribute | |
Aeipathy | A continued passion; an unyielding disease | English | persistence | |
Dor | The heartbreak and sense of longing you feel because you’re separated from your love | Romanian | love adverse | |
Umay | Gettiing tired of a certain food | Tagalog | food | |
Gluggaveður | "Window Weather" i.e. weather that is nice to look at through a window but not nice to be out in | Icelandic | weather visual | |
Hoppilandkalle | Guy who jumps to dry land to moor a boat | Swedish | action | |
Schnapsidee | An idea you have when you're drunk and will probably not considered anymore once you're sober | German | thinking change | |
Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action | |
Mamihlapinatapai | A look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin | Yaghan | love feeling |
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