Hygge is a Danish word (pronounced “hoo-gah”) that loosely translates to “a quality of coziness and contentment.” It’s conjectured to come from the word “ hugge ” which means “to comfort” and is where we in English get the word “hug.” I’d never heard of it the word until I was FaceTiming with my friend Sofia. She’s the only person who can cold call me on FaceTime and actually get an answer. (In fact, she’s the only person who ever calls me on FaceTime.) She’d stumbled up o