Schadenfreude is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. The word referring to this emotion has been borrowed from German by the English language and is sometimes also used as a loanword by other languages.
Philosopher and sociologist Theodor Adorno defined schadenfreude as “largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another which is cognized as trivial and/or appropriate.”
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In Dreams
15 years ago
2 comments:
My ethnicist self has always thought of this word with a smug "well OF COURSE the Germans have a word for that".
that's ethnicist like racist
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