Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Être dépaysé | To be in an environment you're not used to | French | change society awareness | |
Rückkehrunruhe | The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness. | German | awareness time | |
Seijaku (静寂) | Quiet (sei) tranquillity (jaku); silence, calm, serenity (especially in the midst of activity or chaos). | Japanese | awareness beauty | |
Mokita | The truth we all know but agree not to talk about. | Kilivila | awareness thinking society | |
uḷaṟu (உளறு) | To say something that should not be or to say somethng nonsensical or unrelated | Tamil | awareness adverse | |
Nuchshlepper | Someone who follows another person; a hanger-on | Yiddish | awareness adverse persistence | |
Yaqin (يقين) | Certitude and freedom from doubt. | Arabic | feeling awareness | |
La douleur exquise | The pain that comes from wanting someone you can’t have | French | feeling awareness love | |
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 | |
Lítost | Sate of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery. | Czech | adverse awareness fate | |
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 | |
Verpeilt | Regularly forgetting things and not being in the present moment enough to organize your life properly | German | adverse awareness | |
Occhiolism | The awareness of the smallness of your perspective | English | awareness life society | |
Opia | the ambiguous intensity of eye-contact which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable. | English | society awareness | |
Jijivisha | The strong, eternal desire to live and to continue living | Hindi | philosophy life awareness | |
Qarrtsiluni | Sitting together in the darkness, waiting for inspiration to strike you | Iñupiaq | awareness thinking reflection | |
Niksen | Sitting down and do nothing at all, thinking of nothing at all | Dutch | feeling awareness | |
Morriña | Nostalgia that you feel when you are far from home | Galician | feeling awareness life | |
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 | |
Zhì (智) | Wisdom, perspicacity, knowledge. | Chinese | thinking awareness | |
Nodus tollens | The realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore. | English | philosophy awareness life | |
Monachopsis | The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place | English | awareness society | |
Zanshin (残心) | Lit. ‘remaining/enduring heart-mind’; a state of relaxed mental alertness (especially in the face of danger or stress). | Japanese | awareness | |
Uffda | A sympathetic word to be used when someone else is in pain. It combines ‘Ouch for you’ and ‘Oh, I’m sorry you hurt yourself’ | Norwegian | empathy emotion awareness | |
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 |
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