Hygge

HOO-gah • Danish

A warm, easy kind of happiness. The gentle joy that happens when you're sharing simple, meaningful moments with people you like.

What if that feeling you've never quite been able to explain… already has a name somewhere out there?

Every day, discover a word with others from another language—a word for an emotion we recognize but can't name in English. Feel it. Share it. Collect it.

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Saudade

sow-DAH-djee • Portuguese

A haunting, bittersweet ache for something—or someone—that's missing. It's more than nostalgia; it's the presence of absence, a longing that feels like both a wound and a treasure. The kind of missing that keeps company with your soul.

from Portugal
“Longing is a bit like hunger. It passes only when one can feast on presence.”
— Clarice Lispector

How much are you feeling this?

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Gigil

GEE-gill • Tagalog

That uncontrollable urge to squeeze something so cute it's almost aggressive. Puppies. Babies. Cheeks. Your jaw clenches and hands tremble with the sheer unbearable adorableness before you.

from the Philippines
“Cute aggression seems to be a mechanism to manage the overload of positive feelings we can get when we interact with something too cute for us to handle.”
— Prof. Lisa A. Williams

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Create New Words Together

Most days you'll explore words from languages around the world. But some feelings don't have names yet—not in any language. What if we could name them together?

1

Submit a Feeling

Describe an emotion that has no name. Give it a word. Share it with the community.

2

Community Votes

Browse submissions. Vote for the words that capture feelings you recognize.

3

Monday Birth

Each Monday, the word with the most votes is born into the world. Collect it.

We're building an emotional vocabulary, one feeling at a time.

Community Word • Born December 9, 2024
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Kleingrief

KLEIN-grief • German-English

The bittersweet ache of outgrowing a favorite childhood place, where everything now seems impossibly small and slightly ridiculous.

“Visited my old elementary school playground. The kleingrief was real - everything felt toy-sized. The monkey bars I used to think were enormous barely reach my shoulders now.”
— CeramicWhale

What we can name, we can understand. What we understand, we can share.

We feel things we can't describe. Moments that slip through the gaps in language. Emotions that live just beyond the reach of words.

Some already have names in other languages. But the feelings no one's captured yet—anywhere? Maybe we can find them together.