• L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
  • Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
  • Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
  • Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.
  • Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
  • Pochemuchka: (Russian) A person who asks a lot of questions.
  • Pena ajena: (Mexican Spanish) The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation.
  • Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
  • Ilunga: (Tshiluba, Congo) A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.
  • Pistanthrophobia: the fear of trusting
  • sylph:a graceful and slender young woman.
  • quixotic:extremely romantic and chivalrous.
  • pareidolia:a psychological phenomenon, wherein a person has the notion of seeing faces of people in clouds, hearing hidden messages and other such unusual feelings.
  • phalerate:decorated; made beautiful.
  • crepuscule:twilight; dusk.
  • epicaricacy:taking pleasure in other’s misfortune; schadenfreud.
  • nepenthe:something, such as a drink or a drug, capable of making one forget suffering.
  • exosculate: to kiss fervently or heartily.
  • lacuna:a blank space or missing part.
  • euonym:a pleasing or beautiful name.
  • quarender :a dark red apple.
  • halcyon:calm and peaceful; tranquil. Prosperous; gold.
  • ubiquitous:being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent.
  • soigné:showing sophisticated elegance; fashionable. Well-groomed; polished.
  • atelaphobia: fear of imperfection
  • alexithymia:difficulty describing feelings to other people
  • Hypophrenia: A feeling of sadness seemingly without a cause.
  • toska: a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a vague restlesness, mental throes, yearning, nostalgia. the adjective toskliviy is translated as "dismal", "dreary"
  • 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. This is a complex concept. It draws on principles of predetermination in Chinese culture, which dictate relationships, encounters and affinities, mostly among lovers and friends.From what I glean, in common usage yuanfen means the “binding force” that links two people together in any relationship.
  • Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese): The act of tenderly running your fingers through someone’s hair.
  • Retrouvailles (French): The happiness of meeting again after a long 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 into 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 difficult it would be to live without them.
  • Saudade (Portuguese): 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 does not and probably cannot exist.”
  • __Cheiloproclitic__Being attracted to someones lips.
  • __Quidnunc__One who always has to know what is going on.
  • __Ultracrepidarian__Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge.
  • __Apodyopis__The act of mentally undressing someone.
  • Gymnophoria The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you.
  • Tarantism The urge to overcome melancholy by dancing.
  • Autolatry The worship of one’s self.
  • Cagamosis An unhappy marriage.
  • Gargalesthesia The sensation caused my tickling.
  • __Capernoited__Slightly intoxicated or tipsy.
  • __Lalochezia__The use of abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain.
  • __Cataglottism__Kissing with tongue.
  • __Basorexia__An overwhelming desire to kiss.
  • __Brontide__The low rumbling of distant thunder.
  • __Grapholagnia__The urge to stare at obscene pictures.
  • __Agelast__A person who never laughs.
  • __Wanweird__An unhappy fate.
  • Petrichor The smell of dry rain on the ground.
  • __Anagapesis__The feeling when one no longer loves someone they once did.
  • Malapert:Clever in manners of speech.

Duende - Unusual power to attract or charm.

  • Concilliabule: A secret meeting of people who are hatching a plot.
  • Strikhedonia:The pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it”.
  • Lygerastia: The condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out.

  • Ayurnamat:The philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed.
  • Sphallolalia:Flirtatious talk that leads no where.
  • Baisemain: A kiss on the hand.
  • Druxy:Something which looks good on the outside, but is actually rotten inside.
  • Mamihlapinatapei:The look between two people in which each loves the other but is too afraid to make the first move.
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