Eunoia

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Word Definition Language Tags Audio
Scrumping Stealing fruit (particularly apples) from trees English food action
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
Abquatulate To leave without saying goodbye English action
Numinous Describing an experience that makes you fearful yet fascinated, awed yet attracted - the powerful, personal feeling of being overwhelmed an inspired English beauty emotion
Oxymoron Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction English attribute confusion
Occhiolism The awareness of the smallness of your perspective English awareness life society
Gongoozler A person who enjoys watching activity on the canals of the United Kingdom. The term is also used more generally to describe those who harbour an interest in canals and canal life, but do not actively participate. English action nature
Orphic Mysterious and entertaining; beyond ordinary understanding English reflection
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
Chrysalism An amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm. English nature beauty
Klexos the art of dwelling on the past; coined by John Koenig. English thinking
Nementia Feeling nervous or anxious in your own skin English feeling adverse
Agnosthesia The state of not knowing how you really feel about something, which forces you to sift through clues hidden in your behavior English confusion thinking
Anecdoche A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening. English friends life
Lachesism The desire to be struck by disaster - to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire English thinking life fate
Eesome Pleasing to the eye English beauty
Insouciant Free from worry, concern, or anxiety English positive
Athazagoraphobia The fear of forgetting, being forgotten or ignored, or being replaced English reflection thinking
Vagary An unpredictable instance, a wandering journey, a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action English change
Abditory A place into which you can disappear; a hiding place English physical thinking
Ellipsism A sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out English adverse thinking time
Kafkaesque Having bizarre of illogical quality English attribute
Liberosis The desire to care less about things. English thinking awareness
Offing The deep, distant stretch of the ocean that is still visible from the land; the foreseeable future English nature beauty




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