Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saucer | To mop up the sauce from your plate with a piece of bread | French | action food | |
| Retrouvailles | Lit. 'rediscovery'; a reunion (e.g., with loved ones after a long time apart). | French | friends family | |
| Se défouler | Let off steam to release or get rid of excess energy | French | energy stress | |
| Énouement | The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self. | French | awareness philosophy | |
| Bon vivant | Someone who enjoys and appreciates the good life. | French | positive happiness | |
| Spleen | Melancholy without apparent cause | French | feeling | |
| Nostalgie de la boue | A yearning for degradation, depravity, or other crude/base aspects of life, literally "a yearning for mud" | French | feeling | |
| Sortable | adj. Someone you can take out without fear of being embarrassed, usually used to refer to friends or family members. e.g. "Elle n'est pas sortable." | French | friends interaction society | |
| Décidément | When coincidences occur or when events repeat themselves by chance (for example, when you run into the same person many times in one week) | French | surprise interaction fate | |
| Avoir la molle | A listless unwillingness to do any work | French | adverse | |
| Débrouillardise | Quality of someone who is resourceful and lives with the ability to creatively improvise; someone who can make do and solve problems without much | French | creative | |
| Adroit | Lit. according to right; skilled, resourceful; dexterous. | French | attribute | |
| Arlésienne | Used to describe people who are at the centre of a conversation/situation/problem but can’t be found anywhere | French | society interaction | |
| Seigneur-terrasse | Someone who spends time, but not money, at a café | French | funny life | |
| L'appel du vide | Describes the instinctive urge to jump from high places | French | habits physical | |
| Mitonner | Cooking with passion | French | food love beauty | |
| Chantepleurer | Singng and crying simultaneously | French | action | |
| La douleur exquise | The pain that comes from wanting someone you can’t have | French | feeling awareness love | |
| Sous-entendu | Don't listen to what you heard. Listen for the message embedded. | French | awareness reflection | |
| Gourmand | One who is excessively fond of eating and drinking. | French | food attribute | |
| L'esprit de l'escalier | Thinking of the perfect reply after the conversation is over. | French | friends interaction | |
| Être dépaysé | To be in an environment you're not used to | French | change society awareness | |
| Débrouille | May be synonymous with resourceful, but it is more of a way of living by making do with little and improvising with what you have | French | creative | |
| Dépaysement | The feeling of being in an environment that you are not used to | French | feeling awareness change | |
| Flâner | verb. to purposely wander, to decide to explore with no final destination. | French | explore travel |
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