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weltschmerz
noun
(welt-schmerz)
mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state
weltschmerz
noun
(welt-schmerz)
a mood of sentimental sadness
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world-weariness
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despair
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ennui
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melancholy
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jamais vu
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tristesse
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joylessness
,
desolation
,
neurosis
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purposelessness
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acedia
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hopefulness
,
ruefulness
,
saudade
,
speechlessness
,
ambiguousness
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blankness
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endlessness
,
everydayness
,
sunniness
,
feverishness
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diphthongs
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vapidness
,
inarticulateness
,
presentiment
,
inwardness
,
unintelligibility
,
solitariness
,
cantankerousness
,
stolidity
,
paraskevidekatriaphobia
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ingenuousness
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lovesickness
,
jauntiness
,
threnody
,
deadness
,
joyousness
,
sappiness
,
unworldliness
,
evanescence
,
logorrhea
,
objective correlative
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wishfulness
,
sublimity
,
edelweiss
,
boundlessness
,
impassivity
,
moroseness
,
wryness
,
triteness
,
inexorability
,
metafiction
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bewitchment
,
appoggiatura
,
arthur schopenhauer
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geist
,
unnamable
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grotesqueness
,
windiness
,
stammerer
,
alexia
,
lifelessness
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banality
,
spoonerism
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beatitude
,
laodicean
,
mournfulness
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coup de foudre
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cavafy
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diminuendo
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archaisms
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glooms
,
insubstantiality
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rosiness
,
abjection
,
past participle
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caesura
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simpleness
,
lonesomeness
,
poeticism
,
aloneness
,
split infinitive
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fleetingness
,
incredulousness
,
anecdotage
,
atavism
,
fretfulness
,
journalese
,
inexplicability
,
mot juste
,
scansion
,
metonymy
,
stoics
,
tearjerking
,
ephemerality
,
profundity
,
mazel
,
poesy
,
satori
,
agelessness
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weltschmerz
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