Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Cafuné | Tenderly running your fingers through your lover's hair | Portuguese | love | |
Mencolek | The trick when you tap someone lightly on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them | Indonesian | funny friends action | |
Viitsima | To overcome laziness as the last or only obstacle to do something. | Estonian | persistence strength | |
Strikhedonia | The joy of being able to say "to hell with it" | English | positive | |
Vipāka (विपाक) | Ripening; the result, ripening or maturation of karma. | Sanskrit | growth | |
Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction | |
Pole | Sorry; can also express empathy and understanding. | Swahili | thinking life | |
Vypendrivatsja (выпендриваться) | To behave in a way that makes one look more important or special than one is, to ride the high horse, to show off | Russian | character society | |
Sóphrosuné (σωφροσύνη) | excellence of character and soundness of mind; leads to other beneficial qualities, such as moderation and self-control. | Greek | awareness | |
Nepenthe | Something that helps you forget grief or suffering | Greek | growth strength | |
moņ (моң) | Sadness; melody; lyricism | Bashkir | adverse music | |
Kaapshljmurslis | The feeling of being cramped on public transportation | Latvian | stress physical | |
Víðsýni | A panoramic view; open-mindedness. | Icelandic | visual | |
Chai-Pani | Literal: "tea and water"; the money and favors given to someone to get things done | Hindi | food action | |
Shemomedjamo (შემომეჭამა) | To keep eating past the point of being full since the food tastes so good. | Georgian | food | |
Spätzünder | A person who needs a long time to understands sth/ so who makes belated progress of personal development | German | adverse | |
Jafjafa (جفجفة) | The sound of new clothes. | Arabic | attribute life | |
Verpeilt | Regularly forgetting things and not being in the present moment enough to organize your life properly | German | adverse awareness | |
Anteayer | The day before yesteraday | Spanish | measurement | |
Tuntuvar | The day before a wedding | Nogay | time event | |
Wei-wu-wei | "Action without action" or effortless doing; conscious non-action; the deliberate and principled decision to do nothing for a reason. | Chinese | action life | |
Mauri | The essence that animates something living, but not human | Māori | nature | |
Schlimazel | A chronically unlucky person | Yiddish | attribute adverse | |
Tizita (ትዝታ) | A bittersweet remembrance and longing for a time, person, thing gone by. | Amharic | time thinking | |
En plein air | Outdoors; in the open air. | French | nature physical | |
Weemoed | Lit. sadness, woe (wee) courage, daring, mood (moed); soft mood; light melancholy; having the strength to overcome a feeling of sorrow (e.g., arising in relation to nostalgia). | Dutch | adverse growth | |
Propuh | A draft of air usually created by opening doors on opposite sides of the house or windows in a car. Some believe it can cause diseases or even kill you. | Bosnian | adverse physical | |
Vagary | An unpredictable instance, a wandering journey, a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action | English | change | |
Empalagoso | Too sweet. Adjective to say you ate something so sweet that you got sick of it. | Spanish | food adverse change | |
(يقبرني) Ya'aburnee | A declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them. | Arabic | love connection fate |
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