Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Dépayser | Disorientation; not necessarily unpleasant (e.g., a pleasant sense of strangeness from being in a foreign country). | French | change feeling | |
Eunoirophrenia | The peace of mind that comes with having pleasant dreams. | Greek | feeling positive | |
Ćeif | A slow and silent enjoyment in someone or in something | Bosnian | positive feeling | |
Oneirataxia | The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality | English | awareness feeling | |
Oodal | Overly exaggerated, fake anger that follows a lovers’ quarrel | Tamil | love event feeling | |
Arbejdsglæde | Literally "work happiness"; the feeling of happiness provoked by a satisfying job | Danish | work happiness feeling | |
답답하다 Dabdabhae | Literally means stuffy; the feeling of needing to get something off your chest. Or when you want to say something but can't, or an awkward situation where people aren't saying what they mean. | Korean | social feeling | |
Dépaysement | The feeling of being in an environment that you are not used to | French | feeling awareness change | |
Schadenfreude | Pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. | German | feeling adverse | |
Spleen | Melancholy without apparent cause | French | feeling | |
Kuebiko | A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence | Japanese | adverse feeling | |
Myötähäpeä | Secondhand embarrassment | Finnish | adverse feeling | |
Ennui | A feeling of being bored and mentally tired caused by having nothing interesting or exciting to do | English | adverse feeling | |
Nostalgie de la boue | A yearning for degradation, depravity, or other crude/base aspects of life, literally "a yearning for mud" | French | feeling | |
Voorpret | That feeling of excitement you get even before an event actually takes place. Literally translates to “pre-fun.” | Dutch | happiness feeling exciting | |
Sensizlik | the state and the concept of being without you, not having you | Turkish | feeling love | |
Hygge | A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being. | Danish | life feeling | |
Bixomets | Shame on behalf of others | Catalan | feeling adverse | |
La douleur exquise | The pain that comes from wanting someone you can’t have | French | feeling awareness love | |
Forelsket | The euphoria you feel when you're first falling in love. | Norwegian | love feeling change | |
Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
Kinkartvyavimudh | Helplessness due to being duty-bound | Hindi | feeling | |
Obhimaan (অভিমান ) | Anger, or something close to it, at being upset with a loved one. Abhiman is not anger or sorrow. It is a temporary expression of a feeling about a loved one that he or she is supposed to address. | Bengali | adverse feeling | |
Fingerspitzengefühl | Literal: “finger tips feeling", but means an intuitive feel or to have one's finger on the pulse | German | feeling | |
Tokimeku | A sudden flutter in your heart, or that feeling of inspiration if you’re anticipating something | Japanese | feeling exciting |
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