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The concepts are not hard to understand and it is not uniquely French, far from it. That said, I cannot think of a single-word equivalent in English.
by kergonath 2y ago
The concepts are not hard to understand and it is not uniquely French, far from it. That said, I cannot think of a single-word equivalent in English.
- adammarples 2y agoI can't think of a single-word translation for schadenfreude either, but that doesn't mean anything
- thsksbd 2y agoTIL Epicaricacy, from ancient Greek ( it was unlikely that the Ancient Greeks didn't have a word for something such a human flaw.
- selenography 2y ago"epicaricacy" fails the simplest test for word-ness: it's never [0] used with the expectation of being understood without explanation. (Nor ever has been, according to Wiktionary.) It seems to have been one of the earliest Nihilartikels. It could still be adopted as a learnèd (read: pretentious) borrowing from Greek, of course, but in that case it would be spelled epicharicacy. [0] Edit: Well, hardly ever. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:epicaricacy#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:epicaricacy#English