Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine | The longest word in Turkish, meaning, ‘It's as though you are from those whom we may not be able to easily make into a maker of unsucessful ones.’ | Turkish | attribute | |
kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
Didis | To search and pick up lice from one's own hair, usually when in bed at night | Indonesian | physical adverse | |
Myötähäpeä | Secondhand embarrassment | Finnish | adverse feeling | |
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 | |
Kopfkino | Imagining scenarios vividly ("head cinema") | German | thinking visual | |
Camhanaich | Half-light; early morning twilight | Irish | event nature | |
Sgriob | The itchiness of the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky | Irish | physical food | |
Desvelarse | To wake up in the middle of the night. Be unable to fall asleep. | Spanish | event adverse | |
Mencomot | Stealing things of small value, mostly for fun rather than out of necessity. | Indonesian | action funny | |
Celístia | Brighness from the stars | Catalan | nature physical | |
Commuovere | "Heartwarming,” but specifically refers to a story that moved you to tears | Italian | beauty interaction emotion | |
Kweesten | Inviting a lover into your bed for some pillow talk | Dutch | love action event | |
Oodal | Overly exaggerated, fake anger that follows a lovers’ quarrel | Tamil | love event feeling | |
Bildung | education, formation, acculturation, cultivation, development. | German | cultural | |
L’chaim (לְחַיִּים) | Lit. ‘to life’. | Hebrew | life | |
Fika | Drinking coffee along with eating something sweet | Swedish | food society | |
Exulansis | The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. | English | emotion thinking | |
Luftmensch | Literal: "air person". Refers to someone who is a bit of a dreamer | Yiddish | attribute | |
Nekama | A man who pretends to be a woman on the internet | Japanese | society | |
Schwärmerei | Excessive or extreme enthusiasm or sentimentality. | German | happiness | |
Vemödalen | The fear that everything has already been done. For example: the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist. | English | philosophy awareness art | |
arumpu (அரும்பு) | A bud, but specifically referring to the stage where it is just starting to bud | Tamil | nature | |
Trennungsagentur | Literal: "separation agent"; A man hired by women to break the news to their boyfriends that they are breaking up | German | action | |
Pretoogjes | Lit. 'fun eyes'; the twinkling eyes of someone engaging in benign mischief or fun. | Dutch | attribute phsyical | |
Beau geste | A gesture noble in its nature or intention but ultimately meaningless in substance | French | action | |
Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction | |
Metanoia | The journey of changing ones mind, heart, self, or way of life | English | growth change | |
Fanaa (فناء) | Used in a romantic, and spiritual sense. It could also mean breaking free, escaping ego, dying while your material body hasn’t | Urdu | fate love | |
Tuntuvar | The day before a wedding | Nogay | time event |
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