Weltschmerz
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title:
Weltschmerz
text:
Weltschmerz is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering". The term was coined by the German Romantic author Jean Paul in his 1827 novel Selina, and in its original definition in the Deutsches Wörterbuch by the Brothers Grimm, it denotes a deep sadness about the insufficiency of the wo
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description:
German word for deep sadness about the state of the world
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltschmerz
date created:
2004-12-30T20:10:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T14:36:49Z
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