Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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tuḷir (துளிர்) | Technically "a baby leaf", but it specifcally means a freshness tenderness, delicateness | Tamil | attribute beauty | |
Ǩuẓlanyu | To marry a divorced woman | Bashkir | family attribute | |
Minestra riscaldata | Literally "heated soup"; something done again but never as good as the first time it happened. Alternative to cavoli riscaldati (heated cabbage) | Italian | attribute | |
desenrascanço | the ability to find improvised solutions to problems | Portuguese | strength attribute life | |
Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
Mana | The prestige, power, dominance of something or someone | Māori | attribute | |
Schlimazel | A chronically unlucky person | Yiddish | attribute adverse | |
Frostbeule | Someone that is very sensitive to cold. That friend that always feels cold. ("frost bite") | German | attribute friends | |
Pomicione | A man who seizes any chance of being in close contact with a woman | Italian | attribute | |
Capoclaque | Someone who co-ordinates a group of clappers. | Italian | society attribute | |
Autophile | A person that loves solitude, being alone | English | character attribute | |
Recherché | Rare, exotic, unusual; not understood or appreciated by many people. | French | beauty attribute | |
Mimoso | Said of something that enjoys being pampered or shown affection | Spanish | attribute love | |
Jein | Yes and no | German | attribute measurement | |
Handschuhschneeballwerfer | A coward willing to criticize and abuse from a safe distance | German | adverse attribute interaction | |
Shibui | Old school cool | Japanese | attribute | |
Adroit | Lit. according to right; skilled, resourceful; dexterous. | French | attribute | |
Kram | The quality of snow that makes it moldable so that one make snow balls and snowmen. | Norwegian | nature attribute | |
Mensch | A person of integrity and honour | Yiddish | character attribute | |
Ramé | Something that is both chaotic and joyful at the same time | Indonesian | life attribute | |
Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine | The longest word in Turkish, meaning, ‘It's as though you are from those whom we may not be able to easily make into a maker of unsucessful ones.’ | Turkish | attribute | |
Rehepaplus | A kind of entrepreneurialism that mustn't always have the moral high ground. Clever, sometimes at the expense of others and their stupidity. The word can be used as both a positive (quick thinker) as a negative (scammer). | Estonian | character attribute | |
Pena ajena | "I feel embarrassed for you" | Spanish | emotion attribute | |
Umarell | A term referring specifically to men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice | Italian | attribute | |
Raspafiestas | An adjective to describe a person who doesn't go until the party is over. | Spanish | habits attribute friends |
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