Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Gökotta | To rise at dawn in order to go out and listen to the birds sing | Swedish | nature beauty | |
Mātauranga | The comprehension, or understanding of the universe | Nogay | awareness thinking reflection | |
Tulak ng bibig, kabig ng dibdib. | Pretending to dislike something, when it reality you actually like it. Literal translation, "push of the mouth, pull (drawing closer to self) of the chest". | Tagalog | action | |
Anecdoche | A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening. | English | friends life | |
Jouissance | "an excess of life", often translated as joy but also can be understood as catharsis | French | attribute | |
Goso | When you smell sesame oil - that nutty, flavorful, aromatic - mostly used to describe smells of sesame and/or bean paste | Korean | sensory food | |
Handschuhschneeballwerfer | A person who wears gloves to throw snowballs; a wimp | German | action attribute | |
Geis | Taboo, prohibition; injunction; something you do (or don’t do), upon which your life depends, or which defines your life. | Irish | change fate | |
(يقبرني) Ya'aburnee | A declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them. | Arabic | love connection fate | |
Riposo | Rest, repose; a nap; cf. siesta. | Italian | event society | |
Extrawurst | Someone who is slowing things down by being fussy, making everything more complicated than necessary | German | stress adverse action | |
Shouganai | It cannot be helped. | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
Sawubona | A greeting that means “I see you, you are important to me and I value you” | Zulu | connection respect | |
Vorfreude | The joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures | German | time awareness happiness | |
Vagary | An unpredictable instance, a wandering journey, a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action | English | change | |
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 | |
Seigneur-terrasse | Someone who spends time, but not money, at a café | French | funny life | |
Capricho | Work done with care in a way that surpass quality expectations. | Portuguese | work creative | |
Pelinti | To move hot food around in your mouth | Buli | food | |
Kusukusu | The suppressed giggling and tittering of a group of women | Japanese | sound friends funny | |
Eldsjäl | This noun is literally ‘fire-soul’, but the actual meaning is ‘enthusiast’ or ‘driving spirit’. | Swedish | strength | |
Anima | Soul; spirit; breath; mind | Latin | positive awareness | |
Schulbildend | Inspiring or leading to the creation of schools of thought. | German | growth philosophy | |
Raspafiestas | An adjective to describe a person who doesn't go until the party is over. | Spanish | habits attribute friends | |
Tempus fugit | Time flies, flees, escapes. | Latin | time | |
Pulesveis | Messy hair, in particular in the back of the head, resulting from being rubbed against the pillow during sex | Norwegian | physical | |
Moledro | A feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you'll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away | English | awareness connection | |
Egyszer volt budán kutyavásár | Literal: "there was a dog-market in Buda only once"; translates to essentially a once in a lifetime opportunity | Hungarian | life fate exciting | |
कौतुक (Kautuk) | What is required is steady, constructive effort, not lightning speed and empty show | Marathi | philosophy persistence | |
Mahalo | Thankfulness, appreciation, and gratitude as a way of living | Hawaiian | positive |
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