Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Schnickschnack | Items of little value; empty words that people may utter | German | adverse | |
Qì zhì (氣质) | Quality of character, disposition, style, charm, attractiveness, magnetism. | Chinese | attribute positive | |
Entzuterre | A distance that allows you to listen to another conversation | Basque | interaction | |
Capicua | A number that doesn't vary if the numbers are inverted. Also it can be called a palindrome, but the word capicua refers especially to the numbers | Catalan | measurement | |
Vprikusku | Drinking tea through pieces of sugar | Russian | food action | |
Jouska | A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head | English | thinking | |
Angushti za'id | Someone with six fingers | Persian | physical | |
Surströmmingspremier | The first day of the year where it acceptable eat rotten herring. | Swedish | food event | |
Trennungsagentur | Literal: "separation agent"; A man hired by women to break the news to their boyfriends that they are breaking up | German | action | |
kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
Mágoa | A heart-breaking feeling that leaves long-lasting traces, visible in gestures and facial expressions | Portuguese | adverse emotion | |
Sitzfleisch | Having "Sitzfleisch": being persistent enough to complete a tough or big task | German | strength growth | |
Eunoia (εὔνοια) | A well-mind; beautiful thinking | Greek | beauty thinking | |
Pochemuchka | A person who asks a lot of questions | Russian | friends attribute habits | |
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 | |
Frostbeule | Someone that is very sensitive to cold. That friend that always feels cold. ("frost bite") | German | attribute friends | |
Döşek | Anything that you can use when you are laying down or sleeping | Turkish | physical | |
Duende | The mysterious power of art to deeply move a person | Spanish | art feeling emotion | |
Luftmensch | Literal: "air person". Refers to someone who is a bit of a dreamer | Yiddish | attribute | |
Chutzpah | Insolence, cheek, audacity. Commonly used to describe someone when they have crossed the line of acceptable behavior | Yiddish | extreme | |
Myötähäpeä | Secondhand embarrassment | Finnish | adverse feeling | |
Resol | That kind of sun light, non direct, when the sun is covered by clouds that still hurts the eyes. | Mallorquín | nature | |
Layogenic | Good looking from a distance | Tagalog | visual | |
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 | |
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 | |
desenrascanço | the ability to find improvised solutions to problems | Portuguese | strength attribute life | |
Efkar | The boredom of the soul. A lovely moment, that you need to be so happy, but instead you feel with a deep sorrow. | Turkish | feeling adverse | |
Milozvučan | Having a sweet and gentle voice | Croatian | attribute physical | |
Turnbeutelvergesser | Literally "sportsbag", but often used for a pupil that forgets their gym bag. | German | funny | |
Arigata-meiwaku | When someone does something for you that you didn’t want them to do, and having to express gratitude for the act | Japanese | interaction |
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