Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
| Kuidare | To eat yourself into backruptcy | Japanese | food funny | |
| Shibui | Old school cool | Japanese | attribute | |
| Tsundoku | Acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them | Japanese | adverse | |
| Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action | |
| Koi No Yokan | The feeling upon meeting someone that falling in love with them is inevitable. | Japanese | love | |
| Ikigai | A reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning. | Japanese | growth happiness | |
| Seijaku (静寂) | Quiet (sei) tranquillity (jaku); silence, calm, serenity (especially in the midst of activity or chaos). | Japanese | awareness beauty | |
| On (恩) | A feeling of moral indebtedness, relating to a favour or blessing given by others. | Japanese | life | |
| Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction | |
| Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
| Yugen | A profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering. | Japanese | beauty awareness philosophy | |
| Kenshō (見性) | Seeing (ken) one’s nature or essence (shō); perceiving one’s Buddha nature; sometimes interpreted as an initial or brief awakening. | Japanese | awareness growth | |
| Chindogu | A person seemingly inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem, but are in fact nothing more than a useless gag | Japanese | creative funny | |
| Wabi-sabi | Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. | Japanese | beauty awareness | |
| Fuubutsushi | The things – feelings, scents, images – that evoke memories or anticipation for a particular season. | Japanese | time | |
| Kyoiku mama | A mother who relentlessly pushes her children toward academic achievement | Japanese | family work growth | |
| Boketto | The act of gazing vacantly into the distance. | Japanese | thinking | |
| kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
| Utura-utura (うつらうつら) | To drift between sleep and wakefulness. | Japanese | event time phsyical | |
| Nekama | A man who pretends to be a woman on the internet | Japanese | society | |
| Boketto (ぼけっと) | gazing vacantly into the distance (without thought or sense of self). | Japanese | ||
| Kintsukuroi | To repair with gold. Understanding that a piece is more beautiful for having broken. | Japanese | beauty change | |
| Nito-onna | A woman so dedicated to her career that she has no time to iron blouses, so dresses only in knitted tops. | Japanese | society work | |
| Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits |
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