- mamihlapinatapei (yagan, an indigenous language of tierra del fuego): the wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start
- yuanfen (chinese): a relationship by fate or destiny
- cafune (brazilian portuguese): the act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair
- retrouvailles (french): the happiness of meeting again after a long time
- forelsket (norwegian): the euphoria you experience when you're first falling in love
- ilunga (bantu): a person who is willing to forgive abuse the first time; tolerate it the second time, but never a third time
- la douleur exquise (french): the heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can't have
- koi no yokan (japanese): the sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall in love
- ya'aburnee (arabic): ''you bury me''. it's a declaration of one's hope that they'll die before another person, because of how hard it would be to live without them
- saudade (portugese): the feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost. another linguist describes it as a ''vague and constant desire for something that doesn't and probably cannot exist.''
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