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Turns Out:
Posted on: August 3, 2016 at 17:22:33 CT
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"But people can also take pain in someone else’s pleasure. Why isn’t there a word for that?
It turns out there is. Scholars have finally found a linguistic relative of schadenfreude, and it sounds like another German portmanteau: gluckschmerz.
Except it isn’t."
“It’s not an actual word in the German language,” says University of Kentucky psychologist Richard Smith. “You won’t find it in any German dictionary.”
Or, for that matter, any English dictionary. Dr. Smith, who is believed to be the first to use gluckschmerz in the title of a published academic paper, discovered the word on the Internet and it stuck with him. When he included it in a 2012 research presentation, though, he was tsk-tsked by German peers almost immediately.
By the way, I just googled "schadenfreude antonym" and got access to that article. Just a heads up.
Edited by awan318 at 17:26:20 on 08/03/16
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