Weltschmerz
Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts] ; literally "world-pain") 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".
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Engraving by Jusepe de Ribera depicting the melancholic and world-weary figure of a poet Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts] ⓘ; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the refusal or incapacity to accept the world as it is, creating a deep sadness at the state of the world.[1][2] It results in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering".[3] The term was coined by the German Romantic author Jean Paul in his 1827 novel Selina.[1] In its original definition in the Deutsches…
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