Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ikigai | A reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning. | Japanese | growth happiness | |
| Kuidare | To eat yourself into backruptcy | Japanese | food funny | |
| Ukiyo | The floating world - living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life | Japanese | creative visual art | |
| Eshaku | A slight bow of around 15 degrees | Japanese | physical action | |
| On (恩) | A feeling of moral indebtedness, relating to a favour or blessing given by others. | Japanese | life | |
| Nekama | A man who pretends to be a woman on the internet | Japanese | society | |
| Tatemae & Honne | The contrast between a person's feelings and desires (honne) versus the behavior and opinions one displays in public (tatemae) | Japanese | feeling reflection character | |
| Shouganai | It cannot be helped. | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
| Yoisho | A word without meaning, said when flopping into a chair after a hard day at work or lifting a heavy bag. | Japanese | event physical work | |
| Komorebi (木漏れ日) | Lit. wood is ‘leaking’ sunlight; dappled sunlight filtering through leaves. | Japanese | nature beauty | |
| Sokaiya | A man with a few shares in several companies who extorts money by threatening to come to the shareholders' meetings and cause trouble | Japanese | adverse | |
| Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
| Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction | |
| 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 | |
| Hikikomori | Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement | Japanese | society | |
| Fuubutsushi | The things – feelings, scents, images – that evoke memories or anticipation for a particular season. | Japanese | time | |
| Arigata-meiwaku | When someone does something for you that you didn’t want them to do, and having to express gratitude for the act | Japanese | interaction | |
| Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
| Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action | |
| kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
| Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
| Haiku (俳句) | A form of Japanese poetry, usually just 17 syllables long (with lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables), involving the sudden juxtapositions of ideas or images, and often focused on natural (e.g., seasonal) phenomena. | Japanese | art | |
| Boketto (ぼけっと) | gazing vacantly into the distance (without thought or sense of self). | Japanese | ||
| Kusukusu | The suppressed giggling and tittering of a group of women | Japanese | sound friends funny | |
| Kyoiku mama | A mother who relentlessly pushes her children toward academic achievement | Japanese | family work growth |