Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Nodus tollens | The realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore. | English | philosophy awareness life | |
Kairosclerosis | A moment in which you realize that you're happy but simultaneously destroy that happiness by overthinking it | English | happiness reflection change | |
Aimonomia | Being scared to learn the ‘why’ of something | English | adverse feeling thinking | |
Autophile | A person that loves solitude, being alone | English | character attribute | |
Ellipsism | A sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out | English | adverse thinking time | |
Metanoia | The journey of changing ones mind, heart, self, or way of life | English | growth change | |
Jouska | A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head | English | thinking | |
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 | |
Limerence | the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily and characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation of one's feelings but not primarily for a sexual relationship. | English | emotion love | |
Manna | A sudden or unexpected help, advantage, or aid to success | English | change positive | |
Strikhedonia | The joy of being able to say "to hell with it" | English | positive | |
Scrumping | Stealing fruit (particularly apples) from trees | English | food action | |
Exulansis | The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. | English | emotion thinking | |
Anecdoche | A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening. | English | friends life | |
Liberosis | The desire to care less about things. | English | thinking awareness | |
Adronitis | Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone | English | friends connection | |
Vemödalen | The fear that everything has already been done. For example: the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist. | English | philosophy awareness art | |
Sphallolalia | Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere. | English | love life | |
Opia | the ambiguous intensity of eye-contact which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable. | English | society awareness | |
Selcouth | Rare, strange, marvellous, wondrous. | English | attribute | |
Lachesism | The desire to be struck by disaster - to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire | English | thinking life fate | |
Petrichor | The smell of earth after rain | English | nature beauty | |
Kafkaesque | Having bizarre of illogical quality | English | attribute | |
Insouciant | Free from worry, concern, or anxiety | English | positive | |
Wintercearig | Literally "winter sorrow"; a feeling of deep sadness related to the cold, still, dark nature of winter | English | weather emotion adverse |
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