{"id":4558,"date":"2019-04-12T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T04:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2019-04-10T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T05:48:34","slug":"thats-the-word-for-it-schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/thats-the-word-for-it-schadenfreude\/","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s the Word for It: Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Schadenfreude is a complex emotion. Toddlers openly express the feeling while adults conceal it. The wry smile at someone\u2019s misfortune reflects feelings that exist in the emotional spectrum. Sometimes schadenfreude erupts as a result of rivalry and sometimes it is justice based. The word schadenfreude was first used in English in 1853 by RC Trench, the archbishop of Dublin,\u00a0 in\u00a0On the Study of Words<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some instances of the word used in books:<\/p>\n

\u201cTo feel envy is human, to savour\u00a0schadenfreude<\/strong>\u00a0is devilish.\u201d
\n\u2015 Arthur Schopenhauer,\u00a0On Human Nature<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was little, I used to pour salt on slugs. I liked watching them dissolve before my eyes. Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something\u2019s getting hurt. It would be one thing to be a loser if it meant that no one paid attention to you, but in school, it means you\u2019re actively sought out. You\u2019re the slug, and they\u2019re holding all the salt. And they haven\u2019t developed a conscience. There\u2019s a word we learned in social studies:\u00a0schadenfreude<\/strong>. It\u2019s when you enjoy watching someone else suffer. The real question though, is why? I think part of it is self-preservation. And part of it is because a group always feels more like a group when it\u2019s banded together against an enemy. It doesn\u2019t matter if that enemy has never done anything to hurt you-you just have to pretend you hate someone even more than you hate yourself. You know why salt works on slugs? Because it dissolved in the water that\u2019s part of a slug\u2019s skin, so the water on the inside its body starts to flow out. They slug dehydrates. This works with snails, too. And with leeches. And with people like me. With any creature, really, too thin-skinned to stand up for itself.\u201d
\n\u2015 Jodi Picoult,\u00a0Nineteen Minutes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Schadenfreude is a complex emotion. Toddlers openly express the feeling while adults conceal it. The wry smile at someone\u2019s misfortune reflects feelings that exist in the emotional spectrum. Sometimes schadenfreude erupts as a result of rivalry and sometimes it is justice based. The word schadenfreude was first used in English in 1853 by RC Trench, … Continue reading “That\u2019s the Word for It: Schadenfreude”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[251],"tags":[265,266],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7vAZr-1bw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4886,"url":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/13\/thats-the-word-for-it-apricity\/","url_meta":{"origin":4558,"position":0},"title":"That's the Word for It: Apricity","date":"February 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Apricity is a word that the Pothi.com team stumbled upon on Twitter. 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