Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Se défouler | Let off steam to release or get rid of excess energy | French | energy stress | |
Saucer | To mop up the sauce from your plate with a piece of bread | French | action food | |
Gourmand | One who is excessively fond of eating and drinking. | French | food attribute | |
Nostalgie de la boue | A yearning for degradation, depravity, or other crude/base aspects of life, literally "a yearning for mud" | French | feeling | |
Dépaysement | The feeling of being in an environment that you are not used to | French | feeling awareness change | |
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 | |
Avoir la molle | A listless unwillingness to do any work | French | adverse | |
Dépayser | Disorientation; not necessarily unpleasant (e.g., a pleasant sense of strangeness from being in a foreign country). | French | change feeling | |
Mitonner | Cooking with passion | French | food love beauty | |
Spleen | Melancholy without apparent cause | French | feeling | |
L'esprit de l'escalier | Thinking of the perfect reply after the conversation is over. | French | friends interaction | |
Bon vivant | Someone who enjoys and appreciates the good life. | French | positive happiness | |
Rire dans sa barbe | To laugh in your beard quietly while thinking about something that has happened | French | funny reflection action | |
Épater les bourgeois | To shock the middle classes | French | society surprise extreme | |
Flâner | verb. to purposely wander, to decide to explore with no final destination. | French | explore travel | |
La douleur exquise | The pain that comes from wanting someone you can’t have | French | feeling awareness love | |
Adroit | Lit. according to right; skilled, resourceful; dexterous. | French | attribute | |
Beau geste | A gesture noble in its nature or intention but ultimately meaningless in substance | French | action | |
Retrouvailles | Lit. 'rediscovery'; a reunion (e.g., with loved ones after a long time apart). | French | friends family | |
En plein air | Outdoors; in the open air. | French | nature physical | |
Crapoter | verb. To not take a lungful of a cigarette. | French | health action society | |
Être dépaysé | To be in an environment you're not used to | French | change society awareness | |
Décidément | When coincidences occur or when events repeat themselves by chance (for example, when you run into the same person many times in one week) | French | surprise interaction fate | |
Jouissance | "an excess of life", often translated as joy but also can be understood as catharsis | French | attribute | |
Débrouillardise | Quality of someone who is resourceful and lives with the ability to creatively improvise; someone who can make do and solve problems without much | French | creative |
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