Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Milozvučan | Having a sweet and gentle voice | Croatian | attribute physical | |
Pena ajena | "I feel embarrassed for you" | Spanish | emotion attribute | |
Pretoogjes | Lit. 'fun eyes'; the twinkling eyes of someone engaging in benign mischief or fun. | Dutch | attribute phsyical | |
Raspafiestas | An adjective to describe a person who doesn't go until the party is over. | Spanish | habits attribute friends | |
Paavam | Someone who is innocent, naive, not well-versed with ways of the world | Malayalam | attribute | |
Overskud | Extra/excess energy; do have sufficient resources to do something; profit (in an economic context). | Danish | attribute | |
Minestra riscaldata | Literally "heated soup"; something done again but never as good as the first time it happened. Alternative to cavoli riscaldati (heated cabbage) | Italian | attribute | |
Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
Noniná | Triple negation. Means yes, with emphasis. | Spanish | attribute measurement positive | |
Erbsenzähler | Literally "a person who literally counts their peas"; someone who is nitpicky and always trying to make things perfect | German | attribute measurement extreme | |
Luftmensch | Literal: "air person". Refers to someone who is a bit of a dreamer | Yiddish | attribute | |
Jouissance | "an excess of life", often translated as joy but also can be understood as catharsis | French | attribute | |
Kos | Cosiness, warmth, intimacy; kose as a verb; koselig as an adjective. | Norwegian | attribute | |
Frostbeule | Someone that is very sensitive to cold. That friend that always feels cold. ("frost bite") | German | attribute friends | |
Selcouth | Rare, strange, marvellous, wondrous. | English | attribute | |
Rehepaplus | A kind of entrepreneurialism that mustn't always have the moral high ground. Clever, sometimes at the expense of others and their stupidity. The word can be used as both a positive (quick thinker) as a negative (scammer). | Estonian | character attribute | |
Pomicione | A man who seizes any chance of being in close contact with a woman | Italian | attribute | |
Schlimazel | A chronically unlucky person | Yiddish | attribute adverse | |
Akrasia | When you know what to do in theory, but don’t act on it in practice. The literal translation is “weakness of will.” Akrasia is how people struggle to take action, even though the Internet gives them unlimited information. | Greek | philosophy attribute | |
Oxymoron | Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | English | attribute confusion | |
Mana | The prestige, power, dominance of something or someone | Māori | attribute | |
Recherché | Rare, exotic, unusual; not understood or appreciated by many people. | French | beauty attribute | |
Weichei | Literal: "soft egg"; someone who is weak or cowardly | German | adverse attribute | |
Séanas | A gap between the upper front teeth | Irish | physical attribute | |
Lekker | Literal translation "tasty", but can be used to describe anything that has one's hearty approval | Afrikaans | positive attribute |
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