Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Koev li halev (כואב לי הלב) | Literally "my head hurts", but used to convey empathy for someone's suffering | Yiddish | empathy connection | |
Fargin | To wholeheartedly appreciate the success of others | Yiddish | empathy happiness connection | |
Kilig | It is the sudden feeling of an inexplicable joy one gets when something romantic or idealistic occurs; butterflies. | Tagalog | feeling love connection | |
Guanxi (关系) | An intimate connection between people which would benefit from the other in solving delicate problems or in achieving personal goals | Chinese | growth connection | |
Adronitis | Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone | English | friends connection | |
Dugnad | Communal work in a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task (ex: a knitting bee) | Norwegian | work society connection | |
Apomakrysmenophobia | The sudden fear that the relationships you posses are shallow or lack depth | English | thinking connection trust | |
Viraag | The emotional pain felt from being away from the person you love | Hindi | emotion love connection | |
Hoʻoponopono | Mutual forgiveness. | Hawaiian | connection character emotion | |
Agape | selfless love to all, universal loving kindness | Greek | love connection | |
Gretchenfrage | A direct question with the intention of unveiling the underlying thoughts of the person being questioned | German | awareness connection | |
Ghalidan | Rolling from side to side as lovers do | Persian | love action connection | |
Kolay gelsin | "may it come easy for you"; said to those who are busy | Turkish | interaction connection | |
Mangomoment | "What can I do now for you, to make you happy?" | Dutch | love friends connection | |
Ciğerparem | Describe love to someone who is in the deepest part of his/her heart; refers to someone that you love as much as your own body. | Turkish | love connection | |
Rizq | Life's provision of account. Often used in daily speech when someone wasn’t able to achieve something, it wasn’t in their Rizq. | Urdu | philosophy connection | |
(يقبرني) Ya'aburnee | A declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them. | Arabic | love connection fate | |
Talaka | Every member of a neighborhood getting together to do a work for free for a poor member of their community | Nogay | community connection | |
Sawubona | A greeting that means “I see you, you are important to me and I value you” | Zulu | connection respect | |
Kuuki Yomenai | "Cannot read the air” and jokingly applies to people who struggle to read social situations | Japanese | connection confusion | |
Nunchi | The art of listening to a person and identifying his or her moods or emotions. The literal combination of "eye" and measure" | Korean | interaction connection emotion | |
Subhiya | Morning coffee, gossip and chat with neighbors after housewives have sent their children to school | Arabic | community connection | |
Cwtch | Wrapping of your arms around someone to make them feel safe in the world | Welsh | love connection | |
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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