Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tsuji-giri | To try out a new sword on a passer-by | Japanese | action violence | |
| Nekojita (ねこじた) | Literally "cat's tongue"; a person who is sensitive to hot food and especially hot drinks | Japanese | food attribute | |
| Kuuki Yomenai | "Cannot read the air” and jokingly applies to people who struggle to read social situations | Japanese | connection confusion | |
| Poka-Yoke | Any mechanism in any process that helps an equipment operator avoid (yokeru) mistakes (poka) | Japanese | work process | |
| Age-otori | The bad feeling one gets after a terrible haircut | Japanese | adverse event feeling | |
| 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 | |
| Hikikomori | When a young person who is obsessed with TV, video games, and the internet, withdraws from society | Japanese | habits society | |
| 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 | |
| Komorebi (木漏れ日) | Lit. wood is ‘leaking’ sunlight; dappled sunlight filtering through leaves. | Japanese | nature beauty | |
| Irusu | Pretending to be out when someone knocks at your door | Japanese | event funny | |
| Amaeru | To seek affection through doing things like clinging or pleading | Japanese | persistence | |
| Mu (無) | Not one, not zero, not yes, not no | Japanese | measurement | |
| 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 | |
| Tachiyomi | To stand in a bookstore and read a book without buying it | Japanese | society funny action | |
| Tokimeki ときめき | Excitement; Feeling of bliss or joy from a discrete experience | Japanese | emotion feeling happiness | |
| Zanshin (残心) | Lit. ‘remaining/enduring heart-mind’; a state of relaxed mental alertness (especially in the face of danger or stress). | Japanese | awareness | |
| Pekopeko | Bowing one's head repeatedly in a grovelling manner | Japanese | physical action | |
| kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
| Nekama | A man who pretends to be a woman on the internet | Japanese | society | |
| On (恩) | A feeling of moral indebtedness, relating to a favour or blessing given by others. | Japanese | life | |
| Kusukusu | The suppressed giggling and tittering of a group of women | Japanese | sound friends funny | |
| Hatsuyume | The first dream one has in the new year; thought to be an omen | Japanese | feeling | |
| 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 | |
| Kuidare | To eat yourself into backruptcy | Japanese | food funny | |
| Shinrin-yoku (森林浴) | bathing' in the forest (literally and/or metaphorically). | Japanese | nature event |
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