Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1850s
Schadenfreude
from Schadenfreude
- Meaning
- Damage-joy — pleasure in another's misfortune.
- Source word
- Schadenfreude
- Route into English
- German philosophical writing → English via Schopenhauer translations and 19th-c. essays.
- Arrived
- 1850s
English borrows.
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