Eunoia
Word | Definition | Language | Tags | Audio |
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Bào fù xìng āo yè (報復性熬夜) | Revenge bedtime procrastination | Chinese | emotion | |
Hikikomori | When a young person who is obsessed with TV, video games, and the internet, withdraws from society | Japanese | habits society | |
Gongoozler | A person who enjoys watching activity on the canals of the United Kingdom. The term is also used more generally to describe those who harbour an interest in canals and canal life, but do not actively participate. | English | action nature | |
Kafkaesque | Having bizarre of illogical quality | English | attribute | |
Shuhari | A Japanese martial art concept which describes the stages of learning to mastery. Roughly is translated to "to keep, to fall, to break away". To first learn the fundamentals (shu), then to break away from traditions (ha), then finally to transcend to where there are no techniques (ri). To "beomce one with the spirit alone". | Japanese | growth | |
Entzuterre | A distance that allows you to listen to another conversation | Basque | interaction | |
Sophrosyne | A healthy state of mind, characterized by self-control, moderation, and a deep awareness of one's true self, and resulting in one's true happiness. | Greek | awareness happiness reflection | |
Tsundoku | Acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them | Japanese | adverse | |
Vypendrivatsja (выпендриваться) | To behave in a way that makes one look more important or special than one is, to ride the high horse, to show off | Russian | character society | |
Altschmerz | Weariness with the same old issues that you've always had - the same boring flaws and anxieties that you've been gnawing for years. | German | adverse growth attribute | |
Friolero | Someone that is very sensitive to cold. That friend that always feel cold. | Spanish | attribute friends | |
Volya (Воля) | "Freedom" and "will", but also vast natural landscape | Russian | nature beauty | |
Trepverter | A witty comeback you think of only when it’s too late to use | Yiddish | funny life | |
Fuubutsushi | The things – feelings, scents, images – that evoke memories or anticipation for a particular season. | Japanese | time | |
Eomchina | Contraction of the phrase "Mom's friend's son". Academically successful (and possibly wealthy) male student who is the target of envy among others | Korean | family society work | |
Frostbeule | Someone that is very sensitive to cold. That friend that always feels cold. ("frost bite") | German | attribute friends | |
(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 | |
Bababa ba? | Is it going down? (In the context of an elevator) | Tagalog | action | |
Dor | The heartbreak and sense of longing you feel because you’re separated from your love | Romanian | love adverse | |
Rabharta | A spring tide | Irish | nature | |
Ludus | playful love between children or casual lovers | Greek | love | |
Uzsonna | A meal between lunch and dinner | Hungarian | food time | |
Carpe Diem | Make the most of the present moment or opportunity. Lit. sieze the day. | Latin | positive | |
Lha’i rnal ‘byor (ལྷའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར) | Deity meditation/yoga; an advanced practice in which one visualises interacting with, or ‘accomplishing’ (i.e., being), a deity. | Tibetan | awareness physical | |
Putzfimmel | Adjective for someone who is obsessed with cleaning | German | habits | |
Jayus | A joke that is so unfunny (or told so badly) that you just have to laugh. | Indonesian | funny | |
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu | Favorably, please. | Japanese | positive | |
Wasuremono | Forgotten or lost things; an item left behind on a train or forgotten at home. | Japanese | adverse habits | |
Ghalidan | Rolling from side to side as lovers do | Persian | love action connection | |
Orphic | Mysterious and entertaining; beyond ordinary understanding | English | reflection |
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