Hygge

This is a Danish word with no direct translation, but it seems to mean something like that feeling when there are a few of you in a room playing board games at Christmas, and it's freezing cold outside and you can hear the drumming of bitter rain on the window, but it's warm and cozy in the room and there's an open fire roaring and you have mulled wine and biscuits and everyone's having a good time. It's a sort of combination of coziness and companionship and happiness and warmth, and it would be a lovely word to get into English.



Demand Euphoria!