Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Mitonner | Cooking with passion | French | food love beauty | |
Uitwaaien | To take a refreshing break outdoors in windy weather | Dutch | nature life beauty | |
Vozdukh (Воздух) | "Air" but also "the stack of spirit". To breathe in is to "take the spirit inside". | Russian | beauty physical | |
Chandamama (చందమామ) | Literally "uncle moon"; referring to the moon when admiring it | Telugu | nature beauty | |
Solkatt | The glimmer that reflects the sunshine off a wristwatch | Swedish | physical beauty | |
Numinous | Describing an experience that makes you fearful yet fascinated, awed yet attracted - the powerful, personal feeling of being overwhelmed an inspired | English | beauty emotion | |
Psithurism | The sound of wind through trees | English | nature beauty | |
Достолепие (dostolepiye) | Contains the roots for dosta (a lot) and lepota (beautiful) from Old Bulgarian language. The word literally means full of beauty but it is more like a combination of noble, full of values, beautiful and brave for man and femininity for women. It is very typical to use this word in context of old traditional photos of people where one appreciate the beauty of the past. | Bulgarian | beauty | |
Mahj | Looking beautiful after having a disease | Persian | beauty change | |
Luscofusco | Time of nightfall, just with the last ray of Sun | Galician | physical beauty | |
Gökotta | To rise at dawn in order to go out and listen to the birds sing | Swedish | nature beauty | |
Recherché | Rare, exotic, unusual; not understood or appreciated by many people. | French | beauty attribute | |
Eunoia | A well-mind; beautiful thinking | Greek | beauty | |
Chaval al hazman (חבל אל הזמן) | Literally "shame on time"; referring to an amazing experience that you don't want to end | Hebrew | beauty happiness time | |
Yugen | A profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering. | Japanese | beauty awareness philosophy | |
Petrichor | The smell of earth after rain | English | nature beauty | |
Abendrot | The colour of the sky when the sun is setting | German | nature beauty | |
Waldeinsamkeit | The feeling of solitude in the woods | German | nature beauty | |
Punya | “Merit,” “virtue”, “sacred", "good karma", among other things | Sanskrit | beauty | |
Eesome | Pleasing to the eye | English | beauty | |
Aesthete | Someone with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature | English | art beauty | |
Wabi-sabi | Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. | Japanese | beauty awareness | |
Kintsukuroi | To repair with gold. Understanding that a piece is more beautiful for having broken. | Japanese | beauty change | |
Yakamoz | The reflection of moonlight or other lights on water | Turkish | nature beauty | |
Rudenėja | The transition from summer to fall, used to describe all the processes during the change of the seasons, for example leaves changing the colour, constant rain, etc. | Lithuanian | beauty change |
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