SCHADENFREUDE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Delight in another person's misfortune

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("Schadenfreude" is a kind of...):

delectation; delight (a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction)

Domain region:

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

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