Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Utura-utura (うつらうつら) | To drift between sleep and wakefulness. | Japanese | event time phsyical | |
Komorebi (木漏れ日) | Lit. wood is ‘leaking’ sunlight; dappled sunlight filtering through leaves. | Japanese | nature beauty | |
Kintsukuroi | To repair with gold. Understanding that a piece is more beautiful for having broken. | Japanese | beauty change | |
Yugen | A profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering. | Japanese | beauty awareness philosophy | |
Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
Koi No Yokan | The feeling upon meeting someone that falling in love with them is inevitable. | Japanese | love | |
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 | |
Seijaku (静寂) | Quiet (sei) tranquillity (jaku); silence, calm, serenity (especially in the midst of activity or chaos). | Japanese | awareness beauty | |
Nekama | A man who pretends to be a woman on the internet | Japanese | society | |
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 | |
Boketto | The act of gazing vacantly into the distance. | Japanese | thinking | |
Hikikomori | Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement | Japanese | society | |
Shinrin-yoku (森林浴) | bathing' in the forest (literally and/or metaphorically). | Japanese | nature event | |
Eshaku | A slight bow of around 15 degrees | Japanese | physical action | |
Fuubutsushi | The things – feelings, scents, images – that evoke memories or anticipation for a particular season. | Japanese | time | |
Noroke | To brag about or sing the praises of the person you love | Japanese | love emotion | |
Wabi-sabi | Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. | Japanese | beauty awareness | |
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 | |
Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
Zanshin (残心) | Lit. ‘remaining/enduring heart-mind’; a state of relaxed mental alertness (especially in the face of danger or stress). | Japanese | awareness | |
Tokimeki ときめき | Excitement; Feeling of bliss or joy from a discrete experience | Japanese | emotion feeling happiness | |
Boketto (ぼけっと) | gazing vacantly into the distance (without thought or sense of self). | Japanese | ||
Shibui | Old school cool | Japanese | attribute | |
Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action |