Schadenfreude Emotion

A Schadenfreude Emotion is an enjoyment derived from some person's misfortune.

• Context:
  • It can be a German Loan Word (e.g. into the English language).
• Example(s):
  • “To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.” --Lizette Woodworth Reese
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Compassion.
• See: Malicious, Sadism, Sarcasm.

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References

2009

• http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
  • Bedeutungen:
    • Vergnügen über das Missgeschick bzw. Unglück eines anderen. “Neid zu fühlen ist menschlich, Schadenfreude zu genießen teuflisch."

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schadenfreude
  • Noun: Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune: "But it is Schadenfreude, a mischievous delight in the misfortunes of others, which remains the worst trait in human nature.” 1897, The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, "Human Nature",

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