Eunoia
| Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vellichor | The strange wistfulness of used bookshops | English | feeling | |
| Vorfreude | The joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures | German | time awareness happiness | |
| Agnosthesia | The state of not knowing how you really feel about something, which forces you to sift through clues hidden in your behavior | English | confusion thinking | |
| Rudenėja | The transition from summer to fall, used to describe all the processes during the change of the seasons, for example leaves changing the colour, constant rain, etc. | Lithuanian | beauty change | |
| Volya (Воля) | "Freedom" and "will", but also vast natural landscape | Russian | nature beauty | |
| Polytropos (πολύτροπος) | Much turned, much traveled, much wandering; turning many ways (shifty, versatile, wily) (changeful, complicated) [notoriously used in the opening of The Odyssey as an early challenge for translators] | Greek | explore | |
| Te quiero | Similar to "I love you" in a lower level, something that you say to someone and maybe someday it will be "love". For example, It's used with close co workers or in the classroom. | Spanish | feeling | |
| Fernweh | To have a yearning to see distant places | German | travel thinking | |
| Umij se | Splash water on your face | Serbian | physical action | |
| Solkatt | The glimmer that reflects the sunshine off a wristwatch | Swedish | physical beauty | |
| Sehnsucht | Thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alternative experiences. | German | philosophy reflection | |
| Ômä (өмә) | Collective helping | Bashkir | society positive | |
| Abhisar (অভিসার) | Lit. 'going towards'; a meeting (often secret) between lovers / partners. | Bengali | love event | |
| Angrillen | Beginning the grilling season | German | food event | |
| Biritululo | The act of comparing yams to settle a dispute | Kiriwani | food thinking | |
| Hwyl | A passion and fervour for a competitive event like a poetry reading or a rugby match that fills your entire body with a sense of belonging. | Welsh | emotion extreme | |
| Zeg | The day after tomorrow | Georgian | time measurement | |
| Rashk-e-Qamar | Someone who is so beautiful, the moon is jealous of their beauty | Urdu | beauty | |
| L’chaim (לְחַיִּים) | Lit. ‘to life’. | Hebrew | life | |
| moņ (моң) | Sadness; melody; lyricism | Bashkir | adverse music | |
| Rabenmutter | A bad mom ("raven mother") | German | family society adverse | |
| Dépaysement | The feeling of being in an environment that you are not used to | French | feeling awareness change | |
| Pålegg | Anything that you can put in a sandwich | Norwegian | food | |
| Schulbildend | Inspiring or leading to the creation of schools of thought. | German | growth philosophy | |
| Petrichor | The smell of earth after rain | English | nature beauty | |
| Ripsaspis (ρίψασπις) | Literal: "the one that throws down his shield"; the one that gives in with dismay | Greek | action | |
| Onsay | Pretend to love | Boro | life | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Moriturism | The sudden reminder that you will one day no longer occupy this earth | English | awareness philosophy life |
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