Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manna | A sudden or unexpected help, advantage, or aid to success | English | change positive | |
| Opia | the ambiguous intensity of eye-contact which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable. | English | society awareness | |
| 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 | |
| Exulansis | The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. | English | emotion thinking | |
| 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 | |
| Orphic | Mysterious and entertaining; beyond ordinary understanding | English | reflection | |
| Autophile | A person that loves solitude, being alone | English | character attribute | |
| Mumpsimus | A traditional custom or notion adhered to although shown to be unreasonable. | English | society cultural | |
| Chrysalism | An amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm. | English | nature beauty | |
| Offing | The deep, distant stretch of the ocean that is still visible from the land; the foreseeable future | English | nature beauty | |
| Jouska | A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head | English | thinking | |
| Abquatulate | To leave without saying goodbye | English | action | |
| Aimonomia | Being scared to learn the ‘why’ of something | English | adverse feeling thinking | |
| Moriturism | The sudden reminder that you will one day no longer occupy this earth | English | awareness philosophy life | |
| Adronitis | Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone | English | friends connection | |
| Vellichor | The strange wistfulness of used bookshops | English | feeling | |
| Klexos | the art of dwelling on the past; coined by John Koenig. | English | thinking | |
| Abditory | A place into which you can disappear; a hiding place | English | physical thinking | |
| Kenopsia | The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet. | English | change time | |
| Werifesteria | To wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery | English | nature explore | |
| Petrichor | The smell of earth after rain | English | nature beauty | |
| Nodus tollens | The realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore. | English | philosophy awareness life | |
| Nementia | Feeling nervous or anxious in your own skin | English | feeling adverse | |
| 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 |
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