| 单词 | world sadness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworld sadness world sadness n. [after German Weltschmerz Weltschmerz n.] ΚΠ 1887 J. P. Mahaffy Greek Life & Thought xii. 273 There is the melancholy, almost the despondency, felt in a weary time at the many troubles of life, that world-sadness of which Euripides shows the earliest traces among the Greeks. 1901 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. at Pessimism The same ‘world-sadness’ (Weltschmerz)..colours..the poetry of Omar Khayyam, Leopardi, Heine, and Byron. 2001 A. Solomon Noonday Demon (2002) viii. 315 In Germany, the feeling would acquire a name beyond that of melancholy; Weltschmerz, or world-sadness. < as lemmas |
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