Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Backpfeifengesicht | A face in need of a slap | German | physical funny | |
Schwärmerei | Excessive or extreme enthusiasm or sentimentality. | German | happiness | |
Kabelsalat | Tangled up cables; literally “cable-salad" | German | funny physical | |
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 | |
Fingerspitzengefühl | Literal: “finger tips feeling", but means an intuitive feel or to have one's finger on the pulse | German | feeling | |
Krawattenmuffel | Someone who'd rather not wear a tie | German | clothing habits | |
Spätzünder | A person who needs a long time to understands sth/ so who makes belated progress of personal development | German | adverse | |
Weltschmerz | Feeling hopeless about the state our world is currently in ("world pain") | German | adverse society | |
Packesel | The person who’s stuck carrying everyone else’s bags on a trip | German | travel physical | |
Kopfkino | Imagining scenarios vividly ("head cinema") | German | thinking visual | |
Verschlimmbesserung | An attempt at improvement that makes things worse than they already were | German | adverse | |
Unglücksrabe | An unlucky person (literally: Raven with bad luck) | German | luck adverse | |
Vorfreude | The joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures | German | time awareness happiness | |
Fisselig | Being flustered to the point of incompetence | German | stress | |
Zugzwang | To be forced to make a move even though it will likely to be at your disadvantage | German | action interaction philosophy | |
Handschuhschneeballwerfer | A person who wears gloves to throw snowballs; a wimp | German | action attribute | |
Sitzfleisch | Having "Sitzfleisch": being persistent enough to complete a tough or big task | German | strength growth | |
Strohwitwer | "Grass widower"; a man whose partner or wife has left him alone. | German | family adverse | |
Schnapsidee | An idea so stupid the person must have thought of it while drunk | German | funny thinking creative | |
Abendrot | The colour of the sky when the sun is setting | German | nature beauty | |
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 | |
Fremdschämen | To be embarrassed by something somebody else did | German | society thinking adverse | |
Rückkehrunruhe | The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness. | German | awareness time | |
Schnickschnack | Items of little value; empty words that people may utter | German | adverse | |
Schnapsleiche | So who passed out drunk ("liquor corpse") | German | adverse event friends |
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