See Weltschmerz on Wiktionary
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"text": "And in this respect [Ludwig] Uhland presents a marked and useful contrast to the lackadaisical, sentimental, Weltschmerz school, the poets of which trade on their own pretended misery, and, cunningly enough, suggest that their poems must be touching and true in proportion as the authors set themselves forth as peculiarly skilled in bitterness of heart and badness of life.",
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"ref": "1947 April 28, “Art: Berlin’s Best”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-02-03:",
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"ref": "1973, Thomas Pynchon, “Part 3: In the Zone”, in Gravity’s Rainbow, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 348:",
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"ref": "2001 December, Susan Reifer, “Skiing is Good: Carry the Solitude and Peace of the Mountains with You”, in Rick Kahl, editor, Skiing, volume 54, number 4, Boulder, Colo.: Time4 Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64, columns 2–3:",
"text": "The country was fat with peacetime prosperity, but lots of people were afflicted with a postwar funk called weltschmerz. They were depressed by what they'd seen of the \"civilized\" world. Soon whole bunches of people in their 20s and 30s moved to ski towns, checking out of the mainstream altogether. Their goal was no more lofty than having the freedom to spend day after endless day in a peaceful bubble, close to nature and on snow-covered slopes. Here was the weltschmerz antidote—and the birth of the parallel universe.",
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"ref": "2002 October, Maya Singer, “Rilo Kiley: The Execution of All Things: Saddle Creek”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 106, New York, N.Y.: The CMJ Network, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:",
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"ref": "1864 July, “Art. II. 1. Gedichte von Ludwig Uhland. 4th Edition, with Preface by Dr. Holland. […] [book review]”, in John Taylor Coleridge, editor, The Quarterly Review, volume 116, number 231, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 53:",
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"text": "[page 118] It speaks well for the general healthiness of the English nation that we have no words corresponding to ‘Weltschmerz’ or ‘Ennui’. The ordinary Englishman experiences neither of these things. […] [page 119] Weltschmerz is a species of disease, a sort of spiritual measles—or to give a more technical diagnosis, it is the revolt of a young soul against the stone and iron of existence. […] ‘Ennui’ only attacks people either of hopeless incapacity or incurable laziness. Weltschmerz on the other hand is a positive, restless, state, a state of protest against the nature of things.",
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"text": "The artificial woe of the ancient armorist, whose days were a perpetual honeyed despair and his nights one long lachrymose vigil, is an extinct literary tradition; but a new, a different, and, alas! a more real sadness has taken its place—the modern world-sadness, the Weltschmerz, which infects all we do and are, not excepting our love-making— […]",
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"ref": "1938 April, W. S. Heckscher, “Was This the Face…?”, in Journal of the Warburg Institute, volume I, number 4, London: Warburg Institute, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 297:",
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"ref": "1947 April 28, “Art: Berlin’s Best”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-02-03:",
"text": "[Henry] Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s.",
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"ref": "1973, Thomas Pynchon, “Part 3: In the Zone”, in Gravity’s Rainbow, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 348:",
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"ref": "2001 December, Susan Reifer, “Skiing is Good: Carry the Solitude and Peace of the Mountains with You”, in Rick Kahl, editor, Skiing, volume 54, number 4, Boulder, Colo.: Time4 Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64, columns 2–3:",
"text": "The country was fat with peacetime prosperity, but lots of people were afflicted with a postwar funk called weltschmerz. They were depressed by what they'd seen of the \"civilized\" world. Soon whole bunches of people in their 20s and 30s moved to ski towns, checking out of the mainstream altogether. Their goal was no more lofty than having the freedom to spend day after endless day in a peaceful bubble, close to nature and on snow-covered slopes. Here was the weltschmerz antidote—and the birth of the parallel universe.",
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"ref": "2002 October, Maya Singer, “Rilo Kiley: The Execution of All Things: Saddle Creek”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 106, New York, N.Y.: The CMJ Network, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:",
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}
],
"word": "Weltschmerz"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "de",
"3": "Weltschmerz"
},
"expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from German Weltschmerz",
"name": "ubor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from German Weltschmerz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "pl-decl-noun-m-in",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "Weltschmerz",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Weltschmerzu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Weltschmerzowi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Weltschmerz",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Weltschmerzem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Weltschmerzu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Weltschmerzu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m-in"
},
"expansion": "Weltschmerz m inan",
"name": "pl-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"Welt‧schmerz"
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"gens": "Weltschmerzu",
"tantum": "s"
},
"name": "pl-decl-noun-m-in"
}
],
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Polish 2-syllable words",
"Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"Polish inanimate nouns",
"Polish lemmas",
"Polish links with manual fragments",
"Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
"Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
"Polish masculine nouns",
"Polish nouns",
"Polish singularia tantum",
"Polish terms borrowed from German",
"Polish terms derived from German",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish terms with homophones",
"Polish unadapted borrowings from German",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɛltʂmɛrt͡s",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɛltʂmɛrt͡s/2 syllables",
"pl:Emotions"
],
"glosses": [
"world-weariness, weltschmerz (profound depression regarding the human condition or the state of the world)"
],
"links": [
[
"world-weariness",
"world-weariness"
],
[
"weltschmerz",
"weltschmerz"
]
],
"tags": [
"inanimate",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈvɛlt.ʂmɛrt͡s/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛltʂmɛrt͡s"
},
{
"homophone": "weltszmerc"
}
],
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{
"word": "weltszmerc"
}
],
"word": "Weltschmerz"
}
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