Eunoia

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Word Definition Language Tags Audio
Trasnochar To stay up all night Spanish life time event
Rückkehrunruhe The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness. German awareness time
Tizita (ትዝታ) A bittersweet remembrance and longing for a time, person, thing gone by. Amharic time thinking
Tempus fugit Time flies, flees, escapes. Latin time
Að redda To save someone or fix something in a time sensitive manner. Icelandic time
Ellipsism A sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out English adverse thinking time
Tízórai A meal between breakfast and lunch, literally "at ten o'clock" Hungarian food time
Fuubutsushi The things – feelings, scents, images – that evoke memories or anticipation for a particular season. Japanese time
Chaval al hazman (חבל אל הזמן) Literally "shame on time"; referring to an amazing experience that you don't want to end Hebrew beauty happiness time
Pisan Zapra The time needed to eat a banana Malay time measurement food
Uzsonna A meal between lunch and dinner Hungarian food time
(يقبرني) Ya'aburnee A way to declare your hope that your loved one will outlive you because of how unbearable it would be to live without them. Arabic love time strength
Hinna "To find the time” or “to be on time” Swedish time
Vorfreude The joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures German time awareness happiness
Anchorage The desire to make time stand still English time
Madrugada The time of day occurring between past midnight and early morning Spanish time measurement
Kenopsia The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet. English change time
Zeitgeist The "spirit of the time" is what's going on culturally, religiously, or intellectually during a certain period. German time society
Otium The condition of being in control of one’s own time; leisure, free-time; ease, peace. Latin growth time habits
Utura-utura (うつらうつら) To drift between sleep and wakefulness. Japanese event time phsyical
Volta During certain hours of the early evening, around dusk, everyone in the town who might feel like going for a walk takes a saunter or stroll up and down the main street Greek time physical nature
Zeg The day after tomorrow Georgian time measurement
Tuntuvar The day before a wedding Nogay time event
Mysa Can mean "cosying up" or "to snuggle", but in braoder sense, it means to "have a nice and relaxed time" Swedish happiness time
Hissikablelvuku To sense something before it actually happens Turkish fate time




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