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Weltschmerz

noun
1.
Sadness on thinking about the evils of the world.  Synonym: world-weariness.





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"Weltschmerz" Quotes from Famous Books



... same age is often an unreliable, even dangerous witness. This is almost always the case when the girl is in some degree talented, impulsive, dreamy, romantic, and adventurous,—she expresses a sort of weltschmerz connected with ennui. This comes early, and if a girl of that age is herself drawn into the circle of the events in question, we are never safe from extreme exaggeration. The merest larceny becomes ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
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... Actor, "the psychology. To make Hamlet understood, I want to show him as a man bowed down by a great burden. He is overwhelmed with Weltschmerz. He carries in him the whole weight of the Zeitgeist; in fact, everlasting ...
— Frenzied Fiction • Stephen Leacock
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Words linked to "Weltschmerz" :   melancholy


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