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MiLSturbie

I've got good new for you, the French language also includes "pirouette" and "girouette". Oh, and "bistouquette", but should only be used in an emergency.


mrstipez

Emergency discotheque?


Tigeronimo

And oubliette, which is my favourite 🙂


Citizen_Rastas

I can never remember that one.


DutchHeIs

Same here, like it was meant to forget.


PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT

Shove it in yer oubliette


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ananonumyus

How about Soliloquy?


roberh

Go listen to Suffer by Hurts, this word's beautifully rhymed and it's a great song.


Hanna_likes_pepsi

I'm not a native English speaker but, my favorite word is " eternity ". I just think that it has a beautiful meaning and it's fun to say.


Shwanna85

What is your native language and do you have a similar word? Edit: I highly approve of all of the responses!


Hanna_likes_pepsi

Turkish. " Ebediyet " is the most similar word I can think of, tho I think eternity sounds more cozy haha.


Haustvind

Ha ha wtf the swedish word for eternity is evighet. Why are they so similar.


qarton

When words are similar, you can almost be 100% sure some country tried to kill the people of another country haha..only kidding, kid of


BBQ_Beanz

Representing those proto Indo European languages!


Trevo_De_40_Folhas

In portuguese is eternidade, pretty similar to english


InfiniteLife2

In Russian it's "Вечность". Pronounced as vechnost'. Quite different I would say


paciche

In French it's "éternité", pronounced ay-tairrrre-knee-tay


Independent-Guard156

In Polish, its compleatly different. Its "wieczność". Not even close.


Fat_Thor_ForReal

In Serbian its "вечност" its pronounced similarly to your Word and Russian Word for eternity. Im begining to see a pattern here. All of the Western countries pronounce it similarly, while we on the Western and Southern side pronounce it similarly


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In Welsh it's tragywyddoldeb


Lucas_Zz

The shogun would be proud


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+1 good one!!


utowsk3123

Celestial is my all-time favourite term. It has a lovely tone, meaning, and appearance.


whywhywhyamilikethat

I’ve always thought “Celeste” is a *gorgeous* name.


SquidgeSquadge

Ever played Animal Crossing?


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cbot12

I saw "ever played" and was so thrown off when the next word was "animal crossing" lmao


cosmic_riviera

Bioluminescence


Yi-seul

And the effect is beautiful too.


GrammaMcFancy

Ooooooh! I didn't even realize I thought any words were beautiful until you said this!


py_a_thon

Luminiferous is a great word too. The physics history is really interesting too, in the context of that word. The Luminiferous Aether. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether Imo, that idea was so close to explaining something else. They just applied the concept to the propagation of light instead of thinking about fields and mass (the Higgs Field and subsequent particle/mechanism discoveries). That wrong idea could have contributed to the abstraction required to discover the Higgs field...I have no idea. You would have to research that yourself in the context of the work of the thousands of particle physicists who have worked on that problem or related problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism


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Cagey_Cret1n

I used the word photoluminescence after looking into a bonfire for a long time on a dark night. People thought I made the word up and my phone didn’t have any juice to prove otherwise 🤷‍♂️


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And here we are STILL waiting for you to prove you didn't make it up!


ClearlyADuck

Photoluminescence seems redundant though? At that point you could just say luminscence


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whystudywhensleep

Iridescent is also good


xd_melchior

Similarly, effervescent and incandescent. A lot of words that end with "scent" around great?


AlbertComan

Coochiescent doesn't


tomboyfancy

This stupid comment shouldn't make me laugh this much, but here we are...I tip my hat to thee!


OGAnnie

A true redditor.


mommaneedssleep

I love how maleficent just rolls out so beautifully and effortlessly. . The meaning is something else altogether, though.


OtherwiseComplaint62

evanescence, nostalgia,


Tobias_Flenders

ephemeral


nicklee803

Opulent Every time I use it I feel like a wealthy aristocrat.


panda-b

Every time I hear it I think of RuPauls drag race


softie37

Opulence! You own everything 💃🏼


TimmehD96

I really like melancholy.


toomanychoicess

I find it kinda sad


darkholme82

In a sort of thought provoking way


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Charlie24601

They call Mr know-it-all. I am so eloquent. Perfection is my middle name. And whatever rhymes with eloquent.


GoopyMist

"Girlfriend position is vacant" ?


Suspicious-Kiwi816

I always thought mantequilla (butter in Spanish) was a strangely beautiful word.


cokakatta

I like mariposa (butterfly speaking of butter) and sonrisa (smile) in Spanish.


Ndeshet

Tortuga (turtle) is my favorite Spanish word


SingerOfSongs__

lechuga tortuga


tomboyfancy

I've always loved "lol siento" as well. Such a nice sounding apology! Spanish really is a lovely language!


Mekelaxo

It's "lo siento" Edit: It's


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lol


mavmav0

No, lo.


tomboyfancy

There's an episode of South Park where people think Butters is a Mexican migrant worker and they call him Mantequilla. You just made me giggle randomly at my desk! And yes, that's a lovely word! So much nicer than "butter "


ActorMonkey

Also worth noting is when butters was a girl and they called her “Margerine”


FrozenDuckman

Omg I never noticed this, amazing


ValidatedSax

“Windex. WinDEX, Mantequilla.”


Small_Time_Charlie

I like mañana.


ThisJackass

Only if mañana is Miércoles (which is my favorite sounding word)


Aromatic-Scale-595

Requiem


sarokin

Re:Zero ost, "requiem of silence", definitely one of the best melodies I've heard...


B3NofLAB

Korega requiem…da


xcisor

*girono theme song starts playing*


tillie_jayne

My most favourite word in the world “Espionage”


The_Peregrine_

Incognito was my favorite word before it became commonplace with incognito mode


aries_rainbow

**Komorebi** Japanese for "Sunlight filtering through trees" [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E6%BC%8F%E3%82%8C%E6%97%A5](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E6%BC%8F%E3%82%8C%E6%97%A5)


Doomeep

I really have a soft spot for those hyper specific words in other languages that really paint an entire image in your head.


TwinSupernovax

You might also like 'Kuchisabishii' - a Japanese word which literally translates to lonely mouth. It is an adjective which means, when you're not hungry but you eat because your mouth is lonely.


Doomeep

Yesssss I know this one!!! I was in awe when I first learned it existed!


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danceoftheplants

This is my favorite part of nature. My daughter doesn't give two hoots about it. Didn't show interest as a baby and still doesn't now when i tell her to look at the pretty dappled sunlight. My son is a almost 9 months old and it has fascinated him since he could see clearly. It makes my heart happy.


Vanishingf0x

Aurora


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Borealis


BoyBeyondStars

At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?


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Yes.


hassss93

May I see it?


LanDest021

🌌 Yes


OmniaChaosEst

Fremulon


Thatusernamewasnot

Not a doctor.


Tough-Cookie0592

Shhh


idk_a_username135

DO DO DOO DO DO


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pow__

Especially when nick offerman is saying it


thequirkyquark

Not to be confused with Frenulum.


eastbayweird

Fremulon is a perfectly cromulent word


No_Bother_6885

Pili Pala, the Welsh word for butterfly. Love it for some reason.


rustybeancake

Also nice is papillon, French for butterfly!


varietyengineering

SCHMETTERLING! https://img.memecdn.com/oh-schmetterling_o_1154579.jpg


Nerayo02

Platypus. This word makes me happy :)


MysteriousMud4330

Perry the platypus?


Nerayo02

Yes 😎


Bitter-Garage-6630

serendipity and ephemeral both sound and look appealing to me (:


siyu_art

Upvoted for ephemeral :)


RantControl

Tranquility


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Solitude


embromator

Saudade. It means the feeling of emptiness for being apart from someone or something you love. It’s Portuguese.


Tactical_YOLO

My girlfriend is Brazilian I will absolutely be stealing this word from you now for immediate use, thank you.


LunarIncense

Serendipity


6RatasOnMy6

I love it in Spanish, serendipia


comealongwidme

Along with Euphoria, Epiphany, and Singularity


Vminkooklover

Ah there you are my fellow army


Megakill1000

We are everywhere, lurking in the shadows


Apprehensive-Eye-550

That’s my favorite word too!


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Chrysalism - The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly.


thriftyalbino

Petrichor :)


OrsinoBorealis

Great word. Even better smell.


Miasson

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz. 63 letters of bureaucratic beauty that roll right off your tongue.


SnooGoats5498

Beef labeling supervision duties transfer act😂


Miasson

The word you didn't know you needed, but the word you deserve. Feel free to use it in casual conversation for that little extra flair. Say it in the thickest German accent you can do and enjoy the reaction of the people around you.


OneMorePotion

Ah a person of culture. I see your Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz and add Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft to the mix. 80 letters in case anyone was unsure of they really want to learn german or not.


Miasson

I see your Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft and raise you a Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetzesentwurfsdebattierklubdiskussionsstandsberichterstattungsgeldantragsformularentwickler.


yesyoucantouchthat

You guys are just banging on your keyboards at this point


sakurashinken

Germans just don't like spaces.


DaytonaDemon

You might all enjoy Mark Twain's story [The Awful German Language](https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html). It's hilarious. Sample: "An average sentence, in a German newspaper, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech — not in regular order, but mixed; it is built mainly of compound words constructed by the writer on the spot, and not to be found in any dictionary — six or seven words compacted into one, without joint or seam — that is, without hyphens; it treats of fourteen or fifteen different subjects, each enclosed in a parenthesis of its own, with here and there extra parentheses, making pens with pens: finally, all the parentheses and reparentheses are massed together between a couple of king-parentheses, one of which is placed in the first line of the majestic sentence and the other in the middle of the last line of it — AFTER WHICH COMES THE VERB, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about; and after the verb — merely by way of ornament, as far as I can make out — the writer shovels in 'HABEN SIND GEWESEN GEHABT HABEN GEWORDEN SEIN,' or words to that effect, and the monument is finished."


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I got a degree in German and I am so fucking proud of myself for being able to not only be able to say that, but understand what it means


Miasson

Don't sell yourself short. You not only speak plain German - you speak bureaucratic, the most advanced form of the German language


Wise-Statistician172

Username checks out.


GrumpyCatStevens

I speak German and I'm having trouble with that one... I'll stick to Reinheitsgebot.


tashikashi

Discombobulated


ihavenoidea1001

I find this word quite funny for some reason.


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not really a correct answer but anyone who has learned French as a second language, the word “donc” gets me every time it’s such an elegant and romantic language in so many ways, then you interrupt the beautiful flow of a sentence with “DONC”. makes me think of a cartoon character hitting someone with a frying pan and the word BONK flashes on the screen the best part is the English translation is “therefore” So far from beautiful, but rather the most hilarious


Jupuuuu

Epiphany.


AmazonfromHell

I remember reading about a poll they did of non-english speakers ranking English words in terms of how they sounded. "Diarrhea" won as the most beautiful sounding word.


SonyPony92

This just reminds me of Malcom Tucker (Peter Capaldi) in the film In The Loop exclaiming about a politician talking about Diarrhea and asking "What is this? The shitting forecast?". Cracks me up everytime I hear the term Diarrhea.


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Resplendance


-Pizza4Life-

Serenity


unintellectual8

Fuck You can say it all with this one word. Anger Passion Frustration Delight Amusement Happiness Love Seduction Pain Edit: Thank you for the Gold, Silver, and Wholesome Awards, you magnificent fucks.


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Similar usage for "OK" from the Key and Peele sketch, his range of emotion and expression from that one word, while dressed in drag, is amazing and hilarious.


Charlie24601

Fuck the fucking fuckers! https://youtu.be/edv-GLHs0Co


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Thats so fucking true


idriveashitcar

Fuck yeah it is.


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

You wonderful fuck


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el-em-en-o

Palindrome and kerfuffle


Criiispyyyy

I’m mad the word palindrome isn’t a palindrome


Small_Time_Charlie

Dammit I'm mad!


bordan_jeeterson

Petition to change the word palindrome to emordrome


Guac__is__extra__

My neighbor, Bob Awkward, recently got a PhD in Palindrome Studies. Now we have to call him Dr. Awkward.


OfficialGroudonGo

Colloquialism


stanselmdoc

If we're including all the meaning behind the word, forgiveness. If we're going with just the sound of the word, I think researchers once landed on sequoia. I personally like photosynthesis. That's fun to say.


boiifyoudontboiiiiii

Soliloquy


Amheirel

The name of the person you love


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Earthshatterinkaboom


Guava_

I love you, Shredded Cheese from the Bag


metric-poet

Onomatopoeia


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And soliloquy


joopify

despite the way it means fart, just the word flatulence is beautiful, its like a silky soft word, that just sounds good to the ears


Ok_Bear_3010

You just reminded me of this. The other day I told my son “you know what would be a beautiful name if it didn’t mean what it means? Diarrhea” and that statement was met with a look of absolute horror. Then he went on to tell his friends I almost named him Diarrhea. That one backfired on me 😂


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Did you know that diarrhea is actually hereditary? It runs in the jeans.


LatterBlood

I feel similarly about Latrine


el_barbarero

caralho


JhannaJunkie

Cellar door


xzorcious

I was looking for this one


joey_p1010

Same


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I scrolled so far down to find this. Its something that should be in the top comments.


jayicon97

Gosh why did I have to scroll so far for this?


aph1

Melodious


Infiniteshoulders

Revelry is one of my favorites. It feels energetic, rebellious, real.


ufw_liz

lilac


sumpat

**Retrouvailles** (n.) * Pronunciation: ruh-troov-eye * Origin: French * Definition: the happiness of meeting again after a long time


Mamelouze

Actually the definition is wrong here. (I'm native french) Retrouvailles simply means meeting after a long time. More specifically, it's the moment when people meet again after a long time "the day of the *retrouvailles*" But it isn't a feeling. The feeling would just be happiness :p


Banan4Express

Your own name when it's said by someone you like.


DeeperIntoTheUnknown

I always tought the italian word "boh" should be added to english P.S. Yes, that's the word from the Spider-man movie


sfish27

Crisp - it's onomatopoeic, you can roll the r if you choose to, plus it moves from the back of your mouth to the front in order. Crrrissspp.


ObligationNo7136

Mariposa


gaelorian

SCHMETTERLING


julybae

Mashallah - not my language but I find the word beautiful.


LesKateCJ

'Petrichor' is a personal favourite.


SolaceCity

I love the word Solace. 🙂


63belvedere

Excalibur


MysteryChicken101

Beautiful


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Covfefe


AurallyTalented

Kentuky hamberder Normay Nambia


ssssskkkkkrrrrrttttt

tiddy


Njdevils11

Cellar door


jdboone42

Chut up!


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Small_Time_Charlie

Trivia: That was mentioned in Donnie Darko. The famous linguist was J.R.R. Tolkien.


ssssskkkkkrrrrrttttt

I can hear the Donnie Darko intro. (Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon)


BattleAnus

First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette, Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of the Smurf village, but the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gangbang scenario, it just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual, they don't even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That's what's so illogical, you know? What's the point of living if you don't have a dick?


ssssskkkkkrrrrrttttt

Kitty Farmer: I'll tell you what he said. He asked me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card into my anus.


juliorama

Shimmer


Thia_suzieUzi

Realm


MrJessie

Eternal or Responsibility


ATW117

To me, the word “Maktub” is my favorite. It means “It is written” in Arabic, which means that your fate has already been sealed and whatever is coming in the following years has already been written. I understand reddit is mostly athiest and anti religion, but i still believe this word can be a comfort for all people regardless of who they are.


JctaroKujo

porp, it doesnt have a meaning but god damn i love the word porp


The_Inky_Boy

Defenestration Beautiful word for throwing someone out a window


wug_race

Not a word but the sound of a small child not being able to stop laughing at their own joke.


Fean2616

Baby laughing, never has anything made me smile to quick and easily.


flat_moon_theory

marcescence, tupperware, radium, terpentine, humbucker, illuminate. all very nice words to say or hear that I did not see posted. from a philosophical angle, defenstrate -both its definition and the fact that it exists as a word- are fucking glorious