Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Lagom | Not too much and not too little | Swedish | measurement | |
Nodus tollens | The realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore. | English | philosophy awareness life | |
Lebensmüde | Weary of life | German | adverse life stress | |
Şikemperver | Someone who is very fond of eating and drinking | Turkish | food happiness | |
Kweesten | Inviting a lover into your bed for some pillow talk | Dutch | love action event | |
Dadirri | Inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness out of respect. | Ngangiwumirr | awareness | |
Ukiyo | The floating world - living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life | Japanese | creative visual art | |
Ḥôjônsô (һөйөнсө) | Good news for which a reward is given | Bashkir | positive event | |
Hikikomori | Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement | Japanese | society | |
Verschlimmbessern | Literally "worsen better"; making something worse while trying to improve it | German | action | |
Gourmand | One who is excessively fond of eating and drinking. | French | food attribute | |
Tôpäj (төпәй) | Interjection that is used to forewarn a child of falling | Bashkir | action | |
Tachiyomi | To stand in a bookstore and read a book without buying it | Japanese | society funny action | |
Tartle | The act of hesitating while introducing someone because you've forgotten their name | Scottish | funny event friends | |
Meraki | Describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — when you put “something of yourself” into what you're doing, whatever it may be. | Greek | emotion strength | |
Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action | |
arumpu (அரும்பு) | A bud, but specifically referring to the stage where it is just starting to bud | Tamil | nature | |
Chingada | An imaginary, horrible place where you send all those who annoy you | Spanish | funny adverse character | |
Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction | |
Rén (仁) | Humanity, benevolence; the positive feeling enjoyed by a virtuous person through altruistic behaviour. | Chinese | positive | |
Faamiti | The sound made by sucking air past the lips in order to gain the attention of a dog or child | Samoan | sound | |
Zažitjsja (зажиться) | To keep living beyond the point where one feels they would be better off dead | Russian | death adverse | |
İmece | The gathering of many people and doing the work of one person | Turkish | community | |
Seigneur-terrasse | Someone who spends time, but not money, at a café | French | funny life | |
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 |
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