Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pole | Sorry; can also express empathy and understanding. | Swahili | thinking life | |
| Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
| Mimoso | Said of something that enjoys being pampered or shown affection | Spanish | attribute love | |
| Kram | The quality of snow that makes it moldable so that one make snow balls and snowmen. | Norwegian | nature attribute | |
| Carpe Diem | Make the most of the present moment or opportunity. Lit. sieze the day. | Latin | positive | |
| Dugnad | Communal work in a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task (ex: a knitting bee) | Norwegian | work society connection | |
| Mencomot | Stealing things of small value, mostly for fun rather than out of necessity. | Indonesian | action funny | |
| Mono no aware | The bittersweetness of a brief and grading moment of transcendent beauty. | Japanese | beauty | |
| Otium | The condition of being in control of one’s own time; leisure, free-time; ease, peace. | Latin | growth time habits | |
| Njuta | to deeply enjoy, to profoundly appreciate. | Swedish | positive | |
| Avos' | Doing something without planning, without putting in much effort, yet counting on success | Russian | luck | |
| Madrugada | The time of day occurring between past midnight and early morning | Spanish | time measurement | |
| Wabi-sabi | Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. | Japanese | beauty awareness | |
| Débrouille | May be synonymous with resourceful, but it is more of a way of living by making do with little and improvising with what you have | French | creative | |
| Lachesism | The desire to be struck by disaster - to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire | English | thinking life fate | |
| Manna | A sudden or unexpected help, advantage, or aid to success | English | change positive | |
| Goso | When you smell sesame oil - that nutty, flavorful, aromatic - mostly used to describe smells of sesame and/or bean paste | Korean | sensory food | |
| Fremdschämen | To be embarrassed by something somebody else did | German | society thinking adverse | |
| 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 | |
| Capoclaque | Someone who co-ordinates a group of clappers. | Italian | society attribute | |
| Nou-nou | An indefinite time in the near future. It could be very near, like within a minute or two, or not so very near, like within an hour or three. This time-telling isn't an exact science at all—it's a non-committal way of giving someone a time. | Afrikaans | time | |
| Durcheinander | Complete mess; screwed up beyond all recognition | German | adverse | |
| Klexos | the art of dwelling on the past; coined by John Koenig. | English | thinking | |
| Kilig | It is the sudden feeling of an inexplicable joy one gets when something romantic or idealistic occurs; butterflies. | Tagalog | feeling love connection | |
| Desir | The sound of sand driven by the wind | Malay | sound nature | |
| Ômä (өмә) | Collective helping | Bashkir | society positive | |
| Zhì (智) | Wisdom, perspicacity, knowledge. | Chinese | thinking awareness | |
| Pneúma (πνεῦμα) | Wind; breath; spirit. | Greek | physical | |
| Hoppilandkalle | Guy who jumps to dry land to moor a boat | Swedish | action | |
| 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 |
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