Hygge

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?

Collect daily words from other languages—capturing emotions we recognize instantly but have no name for in English.

Gigil

GEE-gill • Tagalog
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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.

“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

Feeling it today?

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Sisu

SEE-soo • Finnish
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More than grit, more than resilience—sisu is the deep well of determination you draw from when you've already gone beyond your limits. It's that moment when giving up seems logical, but something primal, fierce, and unyielding within whispers, "Not yet."

“When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will.”
— Reinhold Messner

Feeling it today?

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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.

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Community Votes

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

3

Monday Creation

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

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

Community Word • Born December 9, 2024

Kleingrief

KLEIN-grief

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.