Eunoia

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Word Definition Language Tags Audio
Mysa Can mean "cosying up" or "to snuggle", but in braoder sense, it means to "have a nice and relaxed time" Swedish happiness time
Trasnochar To stay up all night Spanish life time event
Ellipsism A sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out English adverse thinking time
Avspasere To take a day (or more) off from work (e.g., because one has previously worked overtime and has built up credit). Norwegian society time
Anchorage The desire to make time stand still English time
Zeg The day after tomorrow Georgian time measurement
(يقبرني) Ya'aburnee A way to declare your hope that your loved one will outlive you because of how unbearable it would be to live without them. Arabic love time strength
Tuntuvar The day before a wedding Nogay time event
Vorfreude The joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures German time awareness happiness
Pisan Zapra The time needed to eat a banana Malay time measurement food
Madrugarse To stay up until the wee hours of the morning Spanish time action
Uzsonna A meal between lunch and dinner Hungarian food time
Utura-utura (うつらうつら) To drift between sleep and wakefulness. Japanese event time phsyical
Tempus fugit Time flies, flees, escapes. Latin time
Rückkehrunruhe The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness. German awareness time
Að redda To save someone or fix something in a time sensitive manner. Icelandic time
Madrugada The time of day occurring between past midnight and early morning Spanish time measurement
Tizita (ትዝታ) A bittersweet remembrance and longing for a time, person, thing gone by. Amharic time thinking
Hissikablelvuku To sense something before it actually happens Turkish fate time
Volta During certain hours of the early evening, around dusk, everyone in the town who might feel like going for a walk takes a saunter or stroll up and down the main street Greek time physical nature
Tízórai A meal between breakfast and lunch, literally "at ten o'clock" Hungarian food time
Dolgostroj (долгострой) A construction project that seems to go on forever Russian time adverse
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
Otium The condition of being in control of one’s own time; leisure, free-time; ease, peace. Latin growth time habits
Nou-nou An indefinite time in the near future. It could be very near, like within a minute or two, or not so very near, like within an hour or three. This time-telling isn't an exact science at all—it's a non-committal way of giving someone a time. Afrikaans time




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