Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Sonder | the realization that everyone has a life as vivid and complex as your own); coined by John Koenig. | English | philosophy awareness | |
Nuchshlepper | Someone who follows another person; a hanger-on | Yiddish | awareness adverse persistence | |
Iktsuarpok | The feeling of anticipation that leads you to keep looking outside to see if anyone is coming. | Inuktitut | awareness persistence feeling | |
Dadirri | Inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness out of respect. | Ngangiwumirr | awareness | |
Wabi-sabi | Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. | Japanese | beauty awareness | |
Ubuntu | A quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity. | Zulu | beauty character awareness | |
Qì (氣) | Lit. air, breath; ‘life force/energy’. | Chinese | health awareness | |
Occhiolism | The awareness of the smallness of your perspective | English | awareness life society | |
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 | |
Mokita | The truth we all know but agree not to talk about. | Kilivila | awareness thinking society | |
Mātauranga | The comprehension, or understanding of the universe | Nogay | awareness thinking reflection | |
Vorfreude | The joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures | German | time awareness happiness | |
Yokomeshi | Literal: "meal eaten sideways"; the stress caused by speaking a foreign language | Japanese | stress feeling awareness | |
Anánkē (Ανάγκη) | destiny, fate, necessity. | Greek | awareness | |
Énouement | The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self. | French | awareness philosophy | |
Onism | The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits just one place at a time. | English | awareness reflection thinking | |
Nodus tollens | The realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore. | English | philosophy awareness life | |
Opia | the ambiguous intensity of eye-contact which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable. | English | society awareness | |
Sophrosyne | A healthy state of mind, characterized by self-control, moderation, and a deep awareness of one's true self, and resulting in one's true happiness. | Greek | awareness happiness reflection | |
Moledro | A feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you'll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away | English | awareness connection | |
Lha’i rnal ‘byor (ལྷའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར) | Deity meditation/yoga; an advanced practice in which one visualises interacting with, or ‘accomplishing’ (i.e., being), a deity. | Tibetan | awareness physical | |
Yugen | A profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering. | Japanese | beauty awareness philosophy | |
Seijaku (静寂) | Quiet (sei) tranquillity (jaku); silence, calm, serenity (especially in the midst of activity or chaos). | Japanese | awareness beauty | |
Zhì (智) | Wisdom, perspicacity, knowledge. | Chinese | thinking awareness | |
Nakakapag pabagabag | Something that brings about excessive anxiety or restlessness for a period of time; something that is making you nervous | Tagalog | stress feeling awareness |
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