Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Solkatt | The glimmer that reflects the sunshine off a wristwatch | Swedish | physical 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 | |
Wabi-sabi | Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. | Japanese | beauty awareness | |
Gökotta | To rise at dawn in order to go out and listen to the birds sing | Swedish | nature beauty | |
Chrysalism | An amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm. | English | nature beauty | |
Serendipity | The development of events by chance that result in a beneficial way | Tamil | event beauty life | |
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 | |
Xiao xiao | The whistling and pattering of rain or wind | Chinese | nature beauty sound | |
Punya | “Merit,” “virtue”, “sacred", "good karma", among other things | Sanskrit | beauty | |
Abendrot | The colour of the sky when the sun is setting | German | nature beauty | |
Eunoia (εὔνοια) | A well-mind; beautiful thinking | Greek | beauty thinking | |
Commuovere | "Heartwarming,” but specifically refers to a story that moved you to tears | Italian | beauty interaction emotion | |
Volya (Воля) | "Freedom" and "will", but also vast natural landscape | Russian | nature beauty | |
Psithurism | The sound of wind through trees | English | nature beauty | |
Mono no aware | The bittersweetness of a brief and grading moment of transcendent beauty. | Japanese | beauty | |
Aesthete | Someone with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature | English | art beauty | |
Uitwaaien | To take a refreshing break outdoors in windy weather | Dutch | nature life beauty | |
Waldeinsamkeit | The feeling of solitude in the woods | German | nature beauty | |
Offing | The deep, distant stretch of the ocean that is still visible from the land; the foreseeable future | English | nature beauty | |
Rashk-e-Qamar | Someone who is so beautiful, the moon is jealous of their beauty | Urdu | beauty | |
Chandamama (చందమామ) | Literally "uncle moon"; referring to the moon when admiring it | Telugu | nature beauty | |
Yakamoz | The reflection of moonlight or other lights on water | Turkish | nature beauty | |
Luscofusco | Time of nightfall, just with the last ray of Sun | Galician | physical beauty | |
Yugen | A profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering. | Japanese | beauty awareness philosophy | |
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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