german word for taking pleasure in others misery
Schadenfreude
title: Schadenfreude text: Schadenfreude Schadenfreude (; ; 'harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. It is one of four related emotions or concepts. Schadenfreude is a complex negative emotion. Rather than feeling sympathy towards someone's misfortune, schadenfreude evokes joyful feelings that take pleasure from watching someone fail. This emotion is displayed more in children than adults, however adults also experience schadenfreude, they are just better at concealing their expressions. "Schadenfreude" is borrowed from German; it is a compound of "Schaden", "damage, harm", and "Freude", "joy". The German title: Schadenfreude text: joy and hate, when we rejoice at other men's mischief, and are grieved at their prosperity; pride, self-love, emulation, envy, shame, &c., of which elsewhere." The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer mentioned "Schadenfreude" as the most evil sin of human feeling, famously saying "To feel envy is human, to savor schadenfreude is diabolic." Rabbi Harold S. Kushner in his book "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" describes "Schadenfreude" as a universal, even wholesome reaction that cannot be helped. "There is a German psychological term, "Schadenfreude", which refers to the embarrassing reaction of relief we feel when something bad happens to someone title: Schadenfreude text: of terms, in which "epikhairekakia" stands as the opposite of "phthonos" (φθόνος), and "nemesis" (νέμεσις) occupies the mean. "Nemesis" is "a painful response to another's undeserved good fortune", while "phthonos" is a painful response to any good fortune, deserved or not. The "epikhairekakos" (ἐπιχαιρέκακος) person takes pleasure in another's ill fortune. Lucretius characterises the emotion in an extended simile in "De rerum natura": "Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis, e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem", "It is pleasant to watch from the land the great struggle of someone else in a sea rendered great by turbulent winds." The abbreviated Latin title: Schadenfreude text: Displeasure at another's happiness is involved in envy, and perhaps in jealousy. The recent coinage "freudenschade" similarly means sorrow at another's success. Displeasure at another's unhappiness is sympathy, pity, or compassion. "Sadism" is pleasure derived from the "infliction" of pain, whereas schadenfreude is pleasure on "observing" misfortune and in particular the fact that the other somehow deserved the misfortune. Neologisms and portmanteau words were coined from the word as early as 1993, when Lincoln Caplan, in his book "Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire", used the word "Skaddenfreude" to describe the delight that competitors of Skadden title: Schadenfreude text: to begrudgery, the resentment or envy of the success of a peer. If someone were to feel joy by the victim’s fall from grace, they would be experiencing "Schadenfreude". A "Roman holiday" is a metaphor from Byron's poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", where a gladiator in ancient Rome expects to be "butchered to make a Roman holiday" while the audience would take pleasure from watching his suffering. The term suggests debauchery and disorder in addition to sadistic enjoyment. "Morose delectation" ("delectatio morosa" in Latin), meaning "the habit of dwelling with enjoyment on evil thoughts". was considered by the medieval church to