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19 Emotions For Which There Are No Words In English [Chart] (bitrebels.com)
9 points by stollercyrus on May 24, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



Good thing we can construct sentences to express ourselves!


If 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.


Another example is the German word "schadenfreude". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude


Sadistic?


Or gloating.



Ei viitsi = ennui? Or, perhaps, lassitudinous?

P.S. Both ennui and lassitudinous are fun to say.


And there's "languor" and "lackadaisicalness".




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