You know the warm, comfortable feeling you get from stepping into a pair of fuzzy slippers or sitting around a candlelit table with close friends?
That’s hygge (pronounced hue-gah), the Danish word that translates to a feeling of utter contentment. According to Danish anthropologist Jeppe Trolle Linnet, Ph.D., any time you feel an immediate sense of pleasure in a particular social or physical situation, you're experiencing hygge. Or as Bronte Aurell, author of “Scandikitchen: The Essence of Hygge,” suggests, it simply means appreciating the moment you’re in, while you’re in it.