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19 Emotions For Which There Are No Words In English [Chart]
- IvyMike 13y agoEi viitsi = ennui? Or, perhaps, lassitudinous? P.S. Both ennui and lassitudinous are fun to say.
- lookACamel 13y agoAnd there's "languor" and "lackadaisicalness".
- CodingPerson 13y agoAnother example is the German word "schadenfreude". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
- qompiler 13y agoSadistic?
- NameNickHN 13y agoOr gloating.
- Svip 13y agoWhat about the Korean Han? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_%28cultural%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_%28cultural%29
- qompiler 13y agoGood thing we can construct sentences to express ourselves!
- kls 13y agoIf slange is included then we do have words for some of those, the two at the bottom the Chinese one and the Estonian one are covered by laid-back and vegge. So there are words that cover some of them, they are just not formalized English.