Eunoia

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Word Definition Language Tags Audio
Énouement The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self. French awareness philosophy
Warmduscher Literal: 'A person that takes warm showers'; to describe those who have trouble stepping out of their comfort zone German funny attribute growth
Tokimeki ときめき Excitement; Feeling of bliss or joy from a discrete experience Japanese emotion feeling happiness
Að redda To save someone or fix something in a time sensitive manner. Icelandic time
Erinmek Not doing something you have to do just because you don’t want to; being a prick Nogay adverse
Tuerto A man with only one eye Spanish physical
Tüddelig Sweet, elderly, and senile German character
Gemba The real place'; in business it refers to the real place where value is created, such as the factory floor. Instead of depending on hierarchy, the people who are closest to what's happening make decisions. Ie: the more hands-on knowledge a decision-maker has, the better their decision will be. Japanese work cultural
Bon vivant Someone who enjoys and appreciates the good life. French positive happiness
Ser/Estar The verb 'to be' is two different verbs in Spanish. Ser is 'what you are' and estar is 'how you are/where you are' Spanish attribute
Egyszer volt budán kutyavásár Literal: "there was a dog-market in Buda only once"; translates to essentially a once in a lifetime opportunity Hungarian life fate exciting
Kenshō (見性) Seeing (ken) one’s nature or essence (shō); perceiving one’s Buddha nature; sometimes interpreted as an initial or brief awakening. Japanese awareness growth
Dépaysement The feeling of being in an environment that you are not used to French feeling awareness change
Kusukusu The suppressed giggling and tittering of a group of women Japanese sound friends funny
Mauerbauertraurigkeit The unexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who really like you. German friends habits
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
Ilunga The capacity to forgive once, tolerate a second time, but never a third time. Conveys the progression toward intolerance. Tshiluba growth emotion reflection
Rizq Life's provision of account. Often used in daily speech when someone wasn’t able to achieve something, it wasn’t in their Rizq. Urdu philosophy connection
Culaccino The mark left on the table by a cold glass Italian physical food
Hikikomori Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement Japanese society
Ehvenişer When choosing between bad things, the lesser of two evils. Turkish philosophy
Milozvučan Having a sweet and gentle voice Croatian attribute physical
Fahrvergnügen The love of simply driving German adventure happiness
Shuhari A Japanese martial art concept which describes the stages of learning to mastery. Roughly is translated to "to keep, to fall, to break away". To first learn the fundamentals (shu), then to break away from traditions (ha), then finally to transcend to where there are no techniques (ri). To "beomce one with the spirit alone". Japanese growth
Zechpreller Someone who leaves without paying the bill. German adverse event friends
Ǩuẓlanyu To marry a divorced woman Bashkir family attribute
Nadryv When a person releases intimate, deeply hidden feelings, sometimes that do not truly exist; imaginary, excessively exaggerated and distorted feelings Russian emotion extreme
Rauxa Sudden determination or action; rapture Catalan action strength
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
Tinga Particles of food left between teeth Tagalog food physical




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