Did you mayhaps mean litotes?
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘litost’.
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Say it Frenchie
A list of foreign or foreign based words
ce soir, vous allez, voudrais, imbroglio, zeitgeist, umami, gastronomique, schadenfreude, waldeinsamkeit, ilunga, taarradhin, litost and 18 more...
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Hard to Translate
Words which exceed the common problems one finds in translation.
radioustukacz, shlimazl, gezellig, saudade, selathirupavar, pochernuchka, klloshar, ilunga, filotimo, plenipotentiary, taarradhin, guanxi and 33 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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edwardvielmetti's Words
wordhord, wordhoard, wordy, wordie, wiki, toriokyo, superpatron, vacuum, crazy, crazybusy, a2b3, 48104 and 220 more...
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smile.animesh's list
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words I like
Echolalia, comedienne, kokoro, litost, seclusive, Yarusenai, Setsunai
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My all time favourites
filigree, bouzouki, rambunctious, grotesque, eleemosynary, couthy, jonquil, spokeshave, imp, cushy, banjo, loupe and 17 more...
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lost in translation
tarof, gambol, hyggelig, tenalach, saudade, pena ajena, l’esprit d’escalier, ya'aburnee, gezellig, ningunear, duende, cafune and 5 more...
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emotional
acedia, anomie, saudade, sehnsucht, mono no aware, sunt lacrimae rer..., wabi-sabi, iki, mottainai, limerence, litost
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foreign
demitasse, apéritif, joie de vivre, sui generis, weltschmerz, weltanschauung, l'esprit de l'esc..., magnum opus, paterfamilias, idée fixe, saudade, gestalt and 62 more...
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dirtmusic's list
Obsessive words
trundle, forzando, graben, caterwaul, chapparral, dauerlauf, diadem, doloroso, dithyramb, dyslalia, desinence, lucerne and 18 more...
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brooklyn_eclectic's Words
litost, erudite, prego, lagom, imbroglio, recalcitrant, consternation, coelacanth, histrionic, polemic, mercurial, neologism and 3 more...
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matth's Words
blamestorming, householdia, neoarchivist, tafsir, litost, fiqh, hadith, benzinger, halfass, villainization, vanidacy, feuilleton and 8 more...
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seanahan Seems like a combination of jealousy, inadequacy, and inferiority complex, with a bit of revenge thrown in for good measure. Oct 25, 2007
reesetee Wow. That's like the S-word, turned inside-out and fortified. Oct 24, 2007
edwardvielmetti "Litost is an untranslatable Czech word. Its first syllable, which is long and stressed, sounds like the wail of an abandoned dog. As for the meaning of this word, I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it difficult to imagine how anyone can understand the human soul without it."
- Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting Oct 24, 2007