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Weltschmerz

/ˈvɛltˌʃmɛːts/

noun
- 1. a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness.
Word Origin German, from Welt ‘world’ + Schmerz ‘pain’.
Scrabble Points: 30
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Weltschmerz
Deep sadness about the state of the world
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". Wikipedia
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