Struggling to describe the moment when you come across something cute? Well, not any longer. There is a word for it now, ...

It is an intense feeling very common among Filipinos, and the lack of a direct translation made “gigil” – along with 10 other Filipino words – among the latest additions to the Oxford English ...

Filipino words like "gigil" and "kababayan" have been included in the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Another Philippine English entry includes ‘lumpia’, the name of any of various types of East and Southeast Asian spring rolls ...

Divorce brings deep pain. The stories you tell yourself and the emotions you and your soon-to-be-ex feel are probably normal, ...

When a father becomes a gambler and his obligation to his family takes the secondary place in his mind, he is no longer a man ...

The dictionary publisher described Gigil as a “pithy name for such a strange, paradoxical emotion.” It can be used as both a noun, or an adjective to describe a person experiencing it.

They will analyze with philosophers this paradoxical emotion — one that is both "internal and in harmony with the world," "spontaneous yet existential, even metaphysical." Others, seeking a more ...

Psychologically speaking, brilliantly creative personality types are difficult to pin down, mainly because they’re complex ...

Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.