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SCHADENFREUDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Schadenfreude mean?
• SCHADENFREUDE (noun)
The noun SCHADENFREUDE has 1 sense:
1. delight in another person's misfortune
Familiarity information: SCHADENFREUDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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