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Mon, 17 Jul 2006

epicaricacy

(n) Taking pleasure in others' misfortune.

a.k.a. Schadenfreude.

According to wikipedia, this word does not appear in most modern dictionaries, but appears in Nathaniel Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary.

The more you know...


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May wrote


You know what's freakin' me out, man? The fact that a friend from high school that I never see just burned me a cd of a newish NY musical involving puppets called Avenue Q, and last week I finally finished listening to it, and there's a song about schadenfreude that the Gary Coleman character sings. So before that, I wouldn't have understood wtf you were talking about, but because of that, I didn't even have to read the above.

I tell you, it's freaky.

Mattie wrote

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Gee whiz, and I thughot this would be hard to find out.

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