Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Aeipathy | A continued passion; an unyielding disease | English | persistence | |
Guān xì (關係) | Cultivating relationships; reciprocal connections; networking; social karma. | Chinese | society friends | |
Tima | Not being ready to spend time or money on a specific thing, despite being able to afford it | Icelandic | thinking action | |
Ciğerparem | Describe love to someone who is in the deepest part of his/her heart; refers to someone that you love as much as your own body. | Turkish | love connection | |
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 | |
Mencomot | Stealing things of small value, mostly for fun rather than out of necessity. | Indonesian | action funny | |
Jia You (加油) | Literally translated to mean "add oil", Jia You means something along the lines of "give'er hell", used in the same way "good luck" is often applied in English | Chinese | strength interaction | |
Koi No Yokan | The feeling upon meeting someone that falling in love with them is inevitable. | Japanese | love | |
Redamancy | The act of loving the one who loves you; a returned love in full | English | love emotion | |
Abditory | A place into which you can disappear; a hiding place | English | physical thinking | |
Sphallolalia | Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere. | English | love life | |
Tulak ng bibig, kabig ng dibdib. | Pretending to dislike something, when it reality you actually like it. Literal translation, "push of the mouth, pull (drawing closer to self) of the chest". | Tagalog | action | |
Fisselig | Being flustered to the point of incompetence | German | stress | |
Warmduscher | Literal: 'A person that takes warm showers'; to describe those who have trouble stepping out of their comfort zone | German | funny attribute growth | |
Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action | |
Tsundoku | Acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them | Japanese | adverse | |
Oxymoron | Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | English | attribute confusion | |
Didis | To search and pick up lice from one's own hair, usually when in bed at night | Indonesian | physical adverse | |
Pantoffelheld | Literally "slipper hero"; A man who may act tough in front of his friends but can’t stand up for himself against his wife | German | family interaction | |
Tuerto | A man with only one eye | Spanish | physical | |
Lagom | Not too much and not too little | Swedish | measurement | |
Aşermek | The experience of craving certain foods while pregnant | Turkish | food | |
Viitsima | To overcome laziness as the last or only obstacle to do something. | Estonian | persistence strength | |
Boketto (ぼけっと) | gazing vacantly into the distance (without thought or sense of self). | Japanese | ||
Handschuhschneeballwerfer | A coward willing to criticize and abuse from a safe distance | German | adverse attribute interaction | |
Shibui | Old school cool | Japanese | attribute | |
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 | |
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 | |
Nakakapag pabagabag | Something that brings about excessive anxiety or restlessness for a period of time; something that is making you nervous | Tagalog | stress feeling awareness | |
Myötähäpeä | Secondhand embarrassment | Finnish | adverse feeling |
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