Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Yaqin (يقين) | Certitude and freedom from doubt. | Arabic | feeling awareness | |
Noniná | Triple negation. Means yes, with emphasis. | Spanish | attribute measurement positive | |
Anteayer | The day before yesteraday | Spanish | measurement | |
Scrumping | Stealing fruit (particularly apples) from trees | English | food action | |
inssa | Short word of insider = trendy people who catch up with the trends | Korean | society | |
Opia | the ambiguous intensity of eye-contact which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable. | English | society awareness | |
Ennui | A feeling of being bored and mentally tired caused by having nothing interesting or exciting to do | English | adverse feeling | |
Gezellig | A warm feeling of cozyness, but also have good times with friends af a party. | Dutch | feeling positive | |
Xíng qì (行氣) | Volitionally (e.g., mentally) circulating or directing qi. | Chinese | growth awareness strength | |
Nedoperepitj (недоперепить) | To drink more than one should have, but less than one would have wanted. To fail to drink too much. | Russian | funny action | |
poshlost (пошлость) | Used to describe situations where things are being sold under the premise "that the greatest joy can be bought" | Russian | adverse extreme | |
Spleen | Melancholy without apparent cause | French | feeling | |
Pole | Sorry; can also express empathy and understanding. | Swahili | thinking life | |
Rückkehrunruhe | The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness. | German | awareness time | |
Lagom | Not too much and not too little | Swedish | measurement | |
Être dépaysé | To be in an environment you're not used to | French | change society awareness | |
Talaka | Every member of a neighborhood getting together to do a work for free for a poor member of their community | Nogay | community connection | |
Capicua | A number that doesn't vary if the numbers are inverted. Also it can be called a palindrome, but the word capicua refers especially to the numbers | Catalan | measurement | |
Kokoro | A unity of mind and heart. | Japanese | awareness feeling | |
Shouganai | It cannot be helped. | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
Vergangenheitsbewältigung | Coping with the past | German | reflection growth | |
Vipāka (विपाक) | Ripening; the result, ripening or maturation of karma. | Sanskrit | growth | |
Gambiarra | A very poor or ugly but effective solution for a problem; to use improvised methods / solutions to solve a problem, with any avaiable material | Portuguese | creative | |
Pomicione | A man who seizes any chance of being in close contact with a woman | Italian | attribute | |
Débrouille | May be synonymous with resourceful, but it is more of a way of living by making do with little and improvising with what you have | French | creative | |
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 | |
Goya (گویا) | The transporting suspension of disbelief that can occur in storytelling | Urdu | surprise | |
Sitzfleisch | Having "Sitzfleisch": being persistent enough to complete a tough or big task | German | strength growth | |
Odnoliub | Someone who has only one love in his or her life; someone who is capable of loving only one at a time | Russian | love fate | |
Mana | The prestige, power, dominance of something or someone | Māori | attribute |
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