Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Madrugada | The time of day occurring between past midnight and early morning | Spanish | time measurement | |
kaizen | Continuous growth | Japanese | growth | |
Naz | The pride that comes from knowing that you are loved no matter what you do | Urdu | love strength positive | |
Papakata | To have one leg shorter than the other | Māori | physical | |
Warmduscher | Literal: 'A person that takes warm showers'; to describe those who have trouble stepping out of their comfort zone | German | funny attribute growth | |
Ḥôjônsô (һөйөнсө) | Good news for which a reward is given | Bashkir | positive event | |
Hikikomori | When a young person who is obsessed with TV, video games, and the internet, withdraws from society | Japanese | habits society | |
Lepos | Charm, grace, wit, elegance, allure. | Latin | positive attribute | |
Onism | The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits just one place at a time. | English | awareness reflection thinking | |
Selcouth | Rare, strange, marvellous, wondrous. | English | attribute | |
Serendipity | The development of events by chance that result in a beneficial way | Tamil | event beauty life | |
Shouganai | It cannot be helped. | Japanese | philosophy fate | |
Surströmmingspremier | The first day of the year where it acceptable eat rotten herring. | Swedish | food event | |
Boketto | The act of gazing vacantly into the distance. | Japanese | thinking | |
Dor | The heartbreak and sense of longing you feel because you’re separated from your love | Romanian | love adverse | |
Rhwe | To sleep on the floor without a carpet, drunk and naked | Tsonga | funny event | |
Flâner | verb. to purposely wander, to decide to explore with no final destination. | French | explore travel | |
Vagary | An unpredictable instance, a wandering journey, a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action | English | change | |
Jugaad (जुगाड) | the ability to 'make do' or 'get by'. | Hindi | life | |
Nepenthe | Something that helps you forget grief or suffering | Greek | growth strength | |
Psithurism | The sound of wind through trees | English | nature beauty | |
Sturmfrei | Having the house or flat to oneself | German | event | |
Donaldkacsázás | Translated as “Donald ducking” or wandering around one’s house with a shirt but no trousers | Hungarian | funny action | |
Ukiyo | The floating world - living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life | Japanese | creative visual art | |
Kram | The quality of snow that makes it moldable so that one make snow balls and snowmen. | Norwegian | nature attribute | |
Saudade | melancholic longing, nostalgia, dreaming wistfulness. | Portuguese | life | |
Umami | A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter); savoriness | Japanese | food attribute | |
Chamcha | Literally: spoon, someone who sucks up to someone else or seeks another's approval constantly | Hindi | negative character | |
Abhayamudrâ (अभय मुद्रा) | The gesture (e.g., in Hindu and Buddhist iconography) of fearlessness, protection, and/or peace; involves the palms facing outwards, and the fingers extending upwards. | Sanskrit | strength | |
Dørstokkmila | The longest mile between your cozy couch in your fireplace-candlelight-cabin-hygge and the door threshold. It would be "door-threshold-mile", loosely translated | Norwegian | nature |
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