Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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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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