Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Livsnjutare | Someone who loves life deeply | Swedish | love life beauty | |
Innerer Schweinehund | Literal: 'Inner pig dog'; the lazy voice in your head. It symbolizes the part of you that doesn’t want to go jogging, that prefers staying at home with chocolate and pizza and is just generally lazy. | German | feeling life health | |
L’chaim (לְחַיִּים) | Lit. ‘to life’. | Hebrew | life | |
Uitwaaien | To take a refreshing break outdoors in windy weather | Dutch | nature life beauty | |
Lachesism | The desire to be struck by disaster - to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire | English | thinking life fate | |
Occhiolism | The awareness of the smallness of your perspective | English | awareness life society | |
Gattara | A woman catlover who feeds alley cats or spends time with domestic cats | Italian | life society | |
desenrascanço | the ability to find improvised solutions to problems | Portuguese | strength attribute life | |
Saudade | melancholic longing, nostalgia, dreaming wistfulness. | Portuguese | life | |
Morriña | Nostalgia that you feel when you are far from home | Galician | feeling awareness life | |
Jijivisha | The strong, eternal desire to live and to continue living | Hindi | philosophy life awareness | |
Jugaad (जुगाड) | the ability to 'make do' or 'get by'. | Hindi | life | |
On (恩) | A feeling of moral indebtedness, relating to a favour or blessing given by others. | Japanese | life | |
Wei-wu-wei | "Action without action" or effortless doing; conscious non-action; the deliberate and principled decision to do nothing for a reason. | Chinese | action life | |
Gemütlichkeit | An atmosphere of belonging, relaxation, chilled music, great food and drink | German | music food life | |
Ohrwurm | A melody or song that gets stuck in your head ("ear worm") | German | life music | |
Seigneur-terrasse | Someone who spends time, but not money, at a café | French | funny life | |
Ramé | Something that is both chaotic and joyful at the same time | Indonesian | life attribute | |
Egyszer volt budán kutyavásár | Literal: "there was a dog-market in Buda only once"; translates to essentially a once in a lifetime opportunity | Hungarian | life fate exciting | |
Sphallolalia | Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere. | English | love life | |
Hygge | A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being. | Danish | life feeling | |
Serendipity | The development of events by chance that result in a beneficial way | Tamil | event beauty life | |
Sud’ba (судьба). | Fate, destiny, fortune | Russian | fate change life | |
Moriturism | The sudden reminder that you will one day no longer occupy this earth | English | awareness philosophy life | |
Trepverter | A witty comeback you think of only when it’s too late to use | Yiddish | funny life |
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