Life domain
Emotions, habits, health, wellbeing and personal routines.
Explore this life domain
Broad classification for emotions & inner life.
Broad classification for habits & procrastination.
Broad classification for health, body & self-care.
Filtered dictionary
A wave of gratitude discovered when a task you were dreading has already been quietly handled by someone else.
Read full entry →Habitually destroying the impact of a joke by immediately, unnecessarily explaining its own punchline.
Read full entry →A verbal caution that reliably precedes a comment guaranteed to be interpreted exactly as feared.
Read full entry →Overconfident about spatial orientation skills that are, empirically, consistently and thoroughly unreliable.
Read full entry →Successfully having a fabricated excuse accepted at face value without further probing or suspicion.
Read full entry →A person whose promise of financial reimbursement exists purely in theoretical, ever-postponed future tense.
Read full entry →A brief, misleading surge of parcel optimism dashed the moment the van simply drives off again.
Read full entry →A frantic, last-minute grooming crisis triggered entirely by a forgotten calendar reminder for school portraits.
Read full entry →A sudden, sinking realisation that proof of purchase for an expensive item vanished in a house clear-out months ago.
Read full entry →A frantic, last-second scramble to rebook a delivery window that disappears the moment you hesitate for even a breath.
Read full entry →A sudden, visceral wave of parental panic triggered purely by caller ID, regardless of how minor the actual issue turns out to be.
Read full entry →A familiar, thirty-second wave of dread synchronised precisely to a xylophone melody most Britons know by heart.
Read full entry →A brazen, entirely unconvincing dental falsehood told while sat in a chair with a light directly in your mouth.
Read full entry →A single, unexplained syllable of concern that instantly guarantees an expensive, unwelcome follow-up appointment.
Read full entry →The public humiliation of a payment failure witnessed by an entire line of increasingly frustrated onlookers.
Read full entry →A daily, high-stakes ritual of redialling repeatedly in a desperate bid to secure one of three available appointments.
Read full entry →A genuine, community-wide sadness felt over the loss of an institution more emotionally significant than most weddings.
Read full entry →A creeping dread of total navigational blindness triggered by a battery percentage in the single digits.
Read full entry →The devastating, slow disappearance of hope as a vehicle you needed to catch drives irrevocably out of earshot.
Read full entry →The nationally practised skill of nodding knowingly at a rule almost nobody can actually explain correctly.
Read full entry →A frantic scramble through drawers for AA batteries occurring exclusively at the worst possible moment.
Read full entry →The collective, low-level neighbourhood panic triggered by a completely ordinary delivery vehicle parked slightly too long.
Read full entry →A red-light beep of shame delivered directly to your pride at the front of a full, watching bus.
Read full entry →A cynical, well-earned suspicion that a temporary closure sign is actually the beginning of the end.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
Submit it directly for editorial review, without designing a card first.