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Comment by onemoresoop

3 hours ago

This gave me schadenfreude... Is it bad to feel schadenfreude?

chat what is the German word for person who feels guilty for feeling schadenfreude

im sure it is a spectacular word

  • Schadenfreude literally means "shameful joy", so it's kind of built into the word itself. Someone who doesn't feel at least a little tinge of wrongness is someone who's broken.

    • No it does not mean that. It's not "shameful joy". It's joy at someone else's misfortune.

      "Schaden" means literally "harm". "Schamfreude" or "Beschaemende Freute" would be "shameful joy", but that's not a word or expression that anyone uses.