Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Angrillen | Beginning the grilling season | German | food event | |
Fahrvergnügen | The love of simply driving | German | adventure happiness | |
Kabelsalat | Tangled up cables; literally “cable-salad" | German | funny physical | |
Schwärmerei | Excessive or extreme enthusiasm or sentimentality. | German | happiness | |
Waldeinsamkeit | The feeling of solitude in the woods | German | nature beauty | |
Torschlusspanik | The fear that time is running out on achieving life goals | German | growth awareness | |
Fremdschämen | To be embarrassed by something somebody else did | German | society thinking adverse | |
Schulbildend | Inspiring or leading to the creation of schools of thought. | German | growth philosophy | |
Vorführeffekt | When you try to give some evidence in public that something works (or doesn't work), but you fail because the opposite happens. | German | funny event | |
Rabenmutter | A bad mom ("raven mother") | German | family society adverse | |
Frustfressen | Excessive eating because of frustration | German | food adverse habits | |
Warmduscher | Literal: 'A person that takes warm showers'; to describe those who have trouble stepping out of their comfort zone | German | funny attribute growth | |
Backpfeifengesicht | A face in need of a slap | German | physical funny | |
Sitzfleisch | Having "Sitzfleisch": being persistent enough to complete a tough or big task | German | strength growth | |
Fachidiot | Someone who knows a great deal about a very narrow subject | German | thinking attribute | |
Strohwitwer | "Grass widower"; a man whose partner or wife has left him alone. | German | family adverse | |
Spätzünder | A person who needs a long time to understands sth/ so who makes belated progress of personal development | German | adverse | |
Packesel | The person who’s stuck carrying everyone else’s bags on a trip | German | travel physical | |
Trennungsagentur | Literal: "separation agent"; A man hired by women to break the news to their boyfriends that they are breaking up | German | action | |
Pantoffelheld | Literally "slipper hero"; A man who may act tough in front of his friends but can’t stand up for himself against his wife | German | family interaction | |
Fingerspitzengefühl | Literal: “finger tips feeling", but means an intuitive feel or to have one's finger on the pulse | German | feeling | |
Altschmerz | Weariness with the same old issues that you've always had - the same boring flaws and anxieties that you've been gnawing for years. | German | adverse growth attribute | |
Kummerspeck | Weight you gain because you're unhappy ("sorrow bacon") | German | food adverse habits | |
Ohrwurm | A melody or song that gets stuck in your head ("ear worm") | German | life music | |
Innerer Schweinehund | Literal: 'Inner pig dog'; the lazy voice in your head. It symbolizes the part of you that doesn’t want to go jogging, that prefers staying at home with chocolate and pizza and is just generally lazy. | German | feeling life health |
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