Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung | Coping with the past | German | reflection growth | |
Mahalo | Thankfulness, appreciation, and gratitude as a way of living | Hawaiian | positive | |
Boketto (ぼけっと) | gazing vacantly into the distance (without thought or sense of self). | Japanese | ||
Jugaad (जुगाड) | the ability to 'make do' or 'get by'. | Hindi | life | |
Gigil | The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute | Tagalog | physical positive funny | |
Gluggaveður | "Window Weather" i.e. weather that is nice to look at through a window but not nice to be out in | Icelandic | weather visual | |
Majime (真面目) | Reliable, responsible, diligent; seriousness, formality. | Japanese | society attribute | |
Celístia | Brighness from the stars | Catalan | nature physical | |
Dolgostroj (долгострой) | A construction project that seems to go on forever | Russian | time adverse | |
Viitsima | To overcome laziness as the last or only obstacle to do something. | Estonian | persistence strength | |
Nedoperepitj (недоперепить) | To drink more than one should have, but less than one would have wanted. To fail to drink too much. | Russian | funny action | |
Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits | |
Pretoogjes | Lit. 'fun eyes'; the twinkling eyes of someone engaging in benign mischief or fun. | Dutch | attribute phsyical | |
Nunchi | The art of listening to a person and identifying his or her moods or emotions. The literal combination of "eye" and measure" | Korean | interaction connection emotion | |
Lítost | Sate of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery. | Czech | adverse awareness fate | |
Tôpäj (төпәй) | Interjection that is used to forewarn a child of falling | Bashkir | action | |
Lieko | A tree trunk that has fallen to the bottom of a lake | Finnish | nature | |
Rocambolesco | Stunning action that requires extreme audacity; literally means "there's no need" as in "there's no need to thank you" | Italian | extreme surprise | |
Wú jí (無極) | Lit. without highest point, utmost point, ridgepole; ultimate, boundless, limitless; the primodial universe; original nature. | Chinese | measurement | |
Mauerbauertraurigkeit | The unexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who really like you. | German | friends habits | |
O ka la nokonoko | A day spent in nervous anticipation of a coughing spell | Hawaiian | thinking health stress | |
Dhurna | Extorting payment from someone by sitting at their front door and staying there until you get paid | Hindi | action persistence | |
Goya (گویا) | The transporting suspension of disbelief that can occur in storytelling | Urdu | surprise | |
Palla | To steal fruit off trees | Swedish | funny action food | |
Kos | Cosiness, warmth, intimacy; kose as a verb; koselig as an adjective. | Norwegian | attribute | |
Ninot | A ninot is a figure with human representation. In a conversation, it means a person without personality. | Valencian | attribute | |
Oodal | Overly exaggerated, fake anger that follows a lovers’ quarrel | Tamil | love event feeling | |
Crapoter | verb. To not take a lungful of a cigarette. | French | health action society | |
Capricho | Work done with care in a way that surpass quality expectations. | Portuguese | work creative | |
Ikigai | A reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning. | Japanese | growth happiness |
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