Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Gula | Gluttony, greed; indulgence; eating simply for the taste (i.e., not from hunger). | Spanish | adverse | |
Tokka | A large herd of reindeer | Finnish | nature | |
L’ecole stratim (לאכול סרטים) | Literally "to eat motives"; describing a person that loves drama | Yiddish | extreme interaction | |
कौतुक (Kautuk) | What is required is steady, constructive effort, not lightning speed and empty show | Marathi | philosophy persistence | |
Frustfressen | Excessive eating because of frustration | German | food adverse habits | |
Dreikäsehoch | A small child who is as tall as three wheels of cheese stacked upon one another | German | measurement food | |
Aeipathy | A continued passion; an unyielding disease | English | persistence | |
desenrascanço | the ability to find improvised solutions to problems | Portuguese | strength attribute life | |
Handschuhschneeballwerfer | A coward willing to criticize and abuse from a safe distance | German | adverse attribute interaction | |
Onism | The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits just one place at a time. | English | awareness reflection thinking | |
Eesome | Pleasing to the eye | English | beauty | |
L’chaim (לְחַיִּים) | Lit. ‘to life’. | Hebrew | life | |
Goesting | Looking forward to, can't wait, have an appetite for | Dutch | positive feeling | |
Qiang jingtou | The fight by a cameraman to get a better vantage point | Chinese | creative art visual | |
Avoir la molle | A listless unwillingness to do any work | French | adverse | |
Meraki | Describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — when you put “something of yourself” into what you're doing, whatever it may be. | Greek | emotion strength | |
Philia | "highest form of love"; deep love between friends, brotherly love | Greek | love friends | |
Épater les bourgeois | To shock the middle classes | French | society surprise extreme | |
Gretchenfrage | A direct question with the intention of unveiling the underlying thoughts of the person being questioned | German | awareness connection | |
Donaldkacsázás | Translated as “Donald ducking” or wandering around one’s house with a shirt but no trousers | Hungarian | funny action | |
Tuntuvar | The day before a wedding | Nogay | time event | |
Zuihitsu (随筆) | Literally, “running brush”. A genre of Japanese literature; authors write what’s top of mind and follow their random thoughts. The genre is more personal than performative and gives the reader an intimate look at the inner workings of the writer’s mind. | Japanese | writing creative | |
Dreich | Especially of weather: dreary, bleak. For example, "a cold, dreich early April day" | Scottish | weather adverse | |
Ta'arof (تعارف) | The complicated set of niceties and social rules to be observed as a form of good manners and proper etiquette | Persian | society interaction | |
Prozvonit | To call a mobile phone and let it ring once so that the other person will call back, saving the first caller money. | Czech | life funny event | |
Sous-entendu | Don't listen to what you heard. Listen for the message embedded. | French | awareness reflection | |
Cavoli riscaldati | Literally "reheated cabbage"; When you attempt to start up a failed relationship or love affair | Italian | love event persistence | |
Talkoot | a collectively pursued/undertaken task; voluntary community work. | Finnish | event society | |
Salām (سلام) | Peace, harmony, wholeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity; used also as a greeting/parting salutation. | Arabic | positive | |
Anánkē (Ανάγκη) | destiny, fate, necessity. | Greek | awareness |
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