Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
| Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits | |
| Utura-utura (うつらうつら) | To drift between sleep and wakefulness. | Japanese | event time phsyical | |
| Fuubutsushi | The things – feelings, scents, images – that evoke memories or anticipation for a particular season. | Japanese | time | |
| 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 | |
| Kenjataimu | "wise man's time": The post-orgasmic period when a man's thoughts are no longer impaired by his sexual drive; he is thus likened to a "sage" of clear mind | Japanese | awareness | |
| Zanshin (残心) | Lit. ‘remaining/enduring heart-mind’; a state of relaxed mental alertness (especially in the face of danger or stress). | Japanese | awareness | |
| Yoroshiku onegai shimasu | Favorably, please. | Japanese | positive | |
| Kuebiko | A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence | Japanese | adverse feeling | |
| Hikikomori | Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement | Japanese | society | |
| 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 | |
| Kyoiku mama | A mother who relentlessly pushes her children toward academic achievement | Japanese | family work growth | |
| Shibui | Old school cool | Japanese | attribute | |
| Yugen | A profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering. | Japanese | beauty awareness philosophy | |
| Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
| Tsundoku | Acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them | Japanese | adverse | |
| Gemba | The real place'; in business it refers to the real place where value is created, such as the factory floor. Instead of depending on hierarchy, the people who are closest to what's happening make decisions. Ie: the more hands-on knowledge a decision-maker has, the better their decision will be. | Japanese | work cultural | |
| Hatsuyume | The first dream one has in the new year; thought to be an omen | Japanese | feeling | |
| Yokomeshi | Literal: "meal eaten sideways"; the stress caused by speaking a foreign language | Japanese | stress feeling awareness | |
| Noroke | To brag about or sing the praises of the person you love | Japanese | love emotion | |
| Eshaku | A slight bow of around 15 degrees | Japanese | physical action | |
| Shuhari | A Japanese martial art concept which describes the stages of learning to mastery. Roughly is translated to "to keep, to fall, to break away". To first learn the fundamentals (shu), then to break away from traditions (ha), then finally to transcend to where there are no techniques (ri). To "beomce one with the spirit alone". | Japanese | growth | |
| Jibaku | The act of unintentionally or inadvertently demolishing your own argument in the process of defending your view | Japanese | confusion interaction | |
| Koi No Yokan | The feeling upon meeting someone that falling in love with them is inevitable. | Japanese | love | |
| Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny |
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