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MALICIOUS PLEASURE [1 record]
Record 1 - internal organization data 2003-12-04
Record 1, English
Record 1, Subject field(s)
- General Vocabulary
- Sociology of Human Relations
- Social Psychology
Record 1, Main entry term, English
- schadenfreude
1, record 1, English, schadenfreude
correct
Record 1, Abbreviations, English
Record 1, Synonyms, English
- malicious pleasure 1, record 1, English, malicious%20pleasure
correct
Record 1, Textual support, English
Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT
Lord Conrad Black's troubles have done for Canadians what Martha Stewart's financial embarrassment did for Americans. We are living through a Black-induced national festival of schadenfreude. The word is German (schaden = damage, freude = joy), and bigots claim it describes a peculiarly German feeling. Alistair Cooke says it's "an unworthy emotion, which may be why we don't admit to it by having a word in English." 1, record 1, English, - schadenfreude
Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS
Nietzsche guessed that feelings of inferiority intensify schadenfreude. Richard H. Smith, a University of Kentucky psychologist, proved, if experiments with students prove anything, the truth of what Nietzsche intuited. Smith studied reactions to the apparently true stories of two medical students who ruined their careers by stealing drugs from a school lab. One of the expelled students was wealthy, good-looking, and a natural scholar, the other was none of those things. Naturally, Smith's subjects felt more gleeful about the distress of the student who had looked like a great success (from Robert Fulford's chronicle). 1, record 1, English, - schadenfreude
Record 1, French
Record 1, Domaine(s)
- Vocabulaire général
- Sociologie des relations humaines
- Psychologie sociale
Record 1, Main entry term, French
- malin plaisir
1, record 1, French, malin%20plaisir
correct, masculine noun
Record 1, Abbreviations, French
Record 1, Synonyms, French
- Schadenfreude 2, record 1, French, Schadenfreude
see observation, masculine noun
Record 1, Textual support, French
Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT
On retire l'impression d'une enlissement inexorable. Les médias, aveuglés par leur Schadenfreude (malin plaisir), brandissent en gros caractères des comparaisons qui blessent. [www.commentaires.com/frame1.htm.] 2, record 1, French, - malin%20plaisir
Record 1, Key term(s)
- Schadenfreude
Record 1, Spanish
Record 1, Textual support, Spanish
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