Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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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 | |
Pochemuchka | A person who asks a lot of questions | Russian | friends attribute habits | |
Altschmerz | Weariness with the same old issues that you've always had - the same boring flaws and anxieties that you've been gnawing for years. | German | adverse growth attribute | |
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 | |
Pena ajena | "I feel embarrassed for you" | Spanish | emotion attribute | |
Jafjafa (جفجفة) | The sound of new clothes. | Arabic | attribute life | |
Mana | The prestige, power, dominance of something or someone | Māori | attribute | |
Noniná | Triple negation. Means yes, with emphasis. | Spanish | attribute measurement positive | |
Manja | Childlike behaviour by women designed to elicit sympathy or pampering by men | Malay | attribute | |
Pomicione | A man who seizes any chance of being in close contact with a woman | Italian | attribute | |
Luftmensch | Literal: "air person". Refers to someone who is a bit of a dreamer | Yiddish | attribute | |
Kafkaesque | Having bizarre of illogical quality | English | attribute | |
Paavam | Someone who is innocent, naive, not well-versed with ways of the world | Malayalam | attribute | |
Enxebre | Something pure and very authentic | Galician | positive attribute | |
Gourmand | One who is excessively fond of eating and drinking. | French | food attribute | |
Handschuhschneeballwerfer | A coward willing to criticize and abuse from a safe distance | German | adverse attribute interaction | |
Mimoso | Said of something that enjoys being pampered or shown affection | Spanish | attribute love | |
Adroit | Lit. according to right; skilled, resourceful; dexterous. | French | attribute | |
desenrascanço | the ability to find improvised solutions to problems | Portuguese | strength attribute life | |
Lekker | Literal translation "tasty", but can be used to describe anything that has one's hearty approval | Afrikaans | positive attribute | |
Recherché | Rare, exotic, unusual; not understood or appreciated by many people. | French | beauty attribute | |
Oxymoron | Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | English | attribute confusion | |
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 | |
Friolero | Someone that is very sensitive to cold. That friend that always feel cold. | Spanish | attribute friends | |
Ser/Estar | The verb 'to be' is two different verbs in Spanish. Ser is 'what you are' and estar is 'how you are/where you are' | Spanish | attribute |
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