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SCHADENFREUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Schadenfreude mean? 

SCHADENFREUDE (noun)
  The noun SCHADENFREUDE has 1 sense:

1. delight in another person's misfortuneplay

  Familiarity information: SCHADENFREUDE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCHADENFREUDE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Delight in another person's misfortune

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("Schadenfreude" is a kind of...):

delectation; delight (a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction)

Domain region:

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)


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