Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Lachesism | The desire to be struck by disaster - to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire | English | thinking life fate | |
Anchorage | The desire to make time stand still | English | time | |
Opia | the ambiguous intensity of eye-contact which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable. | English | society awareness | |
Autophile | A person that loves solitude, being alone | English | character attribute | |
Aeipathy | A continued passion; an unyielding disease | English | persistence | |
Apomakrysmenophobia | The sudden fear that the relationships you posses are shallow or lack depth | English | thinking connection trust | |
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 | |
Occhiolism | The awareness of the smallness of your perspective | English | awareness life society | |
Mumpsimus | A traditional custom or notion adhered to although shown to be unreasonable. | English | society cultural | |
Oxymoron | Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | English | attribute confusion | |
Sphallolalia | Flirtatious talk that leads nowhere. | English | love life | |
Exulansis | The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it. | English | emotion thinking | |
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 | |
Ellipsism | A sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out | English | adverse thinking time | |
Aesthete | Someone with deep sensitivity to the beauty of art or nature | English | art beauty | |
Werifesteria | To wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery | English | nature explore | |
Liberosis | The desire to care less about things. | English | thinking awareness | |
Nementia | Feeling nervous or anxious in your own skin | English | feeling adverse | |
Klexos | the art of dwelling on the past; coined by John Koenig. | English | thinking | |
Insouciant | Free from worry, concern, or anxiety | English | positive | |
Ennui | A feeling of being bored and mentally tired caused by having nothing interesting or exciting to do | English | adverse feeling | |
Strikhedonia | The joy of being able to say "to hell with it" | English | positive | |
Kenopsia | The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet. | English | change time | |
Adronitis | Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone | English | friends connection | |
Abditory | A place into which you can disappear; a hiding place | English | physical thinking |
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