• Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan) = A look shared between two people, both wishing for something to happen, but neither wanting to initiate.
• Tanzih (Arabic) = Transcendence; "To declare something pure and free of something else"; used to denote the incomparability of God to humans.
• Kaze hikaru (風光る) (Japanese) = "A warm breeze of spring that follows after a dark cold winter, comes and breathes gently upon the skin, as if like a shining radiance.”
• Saudade (Portuguese) = An intense, bittersweet nostalgia; "a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves."
  • Hiraeth (Welsh)
  • Keurium (Korean)
  • Wajd (Arabic)
  • Sehnsucht (German)
  • Nostalgia (English)
• Nefelibata (Portuguese) = "A cloud walker. An individual who lives in the clouds of her own imagination or dreams. A person who doesn’t abide by the rules of society, literature, or art."
• Joie de Vivre (French) = "A French phrase often used in English to express a cheerful enjoyment of life; an exultation of spirit."
• Yugen (Japanese) = "A profound, emotional awareness of the universe that can't be put into words."
• Querencia (Spanish) = "A place where one feels safe, a place from which one’s strength of character is drawn."
• Koi No Yokan (Japanese) = "A premonition of love; the sense, upon first meeting someone, that the two of you are going to fall in love."
• Etre dans la lune (French) = "To be on the moon"; to be absent-minded & lost in one's thoughts
• Muraqabah (Arabic) = "To watch over."
• Cafune (Portugese) = Running your fingers through a lover's hair.
• Ya'burnee (Arabic) = "You bury me"; a way of telling someone you'd like to die before they do because you can't bear the thought of living without them.
• Jaaneman (Hindi) = "The life of my soul"; a term of endearment for a lover.
• Qualia (English) = "A philosophical term that refers to the subjective qualities of sensory perception and the feeling they generate."
• Kintsukuroi (Japanese) = "To repair with gold"; when one takes a broken object and uses gold to fill the cracks, with the understanding that the brokenness has made it more beautiful.
• Synchronicity (English) = "The experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner."
• Serendipity (English) = "The accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it."
• Nuannaarpoq (Inuit) = "Taking an inordinate pleasure in being alive."
• Mono no aware (Japanese) = Bittersweet awareness of transience.
• Duende (Spanish) = A heightened state of passion; "the mysterious power of art to deeply move a person"
• Mokita (Kivila) = "Truth we all know but agree not to talk about"; akin to 'the elephant in the room'.
• Lacrimae rerum (Latin) = "Tears of things"; a phrase from Virgil's Aeneid that conveys the comforting sentiment that "there is pity for misfortune".
• Femweh (German) = Longing to be far away
• Tu me manques (French?) = I miss you (literally: you are missing from me).
• Gumusservi (Turkish) = Moonlight shining on water.
• L'esprit de l'escalier (French) = "Staircase wit"; the experience of coming up with a comeback/retort after one has already left the scene.
• Sobriquet (English) = "A nickname which is familiar enough such that it can be used in place of a real name without the need of explanation."
• Psithurism (English) = "The sound of rustling leaves or wind in the trees."

Simple, Lovely Words

• Weltschmerz (German) = world-weariness
• Wanderlust (English) = a strong desire to wander
• Petrichor (English) = the smell of rain on dry earth
• Sakinah (Arabic) = tranquility
• Coquelicot (French) = wild corn poppy
• Papillon (French) = butterfly

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