Word of the day.

Wooooooooooooord. And yup, I forgot last night, I wasn't feeling all to grande, and slept and whatnot.

Schadenfreude - Schadenfreude is a loanword – a word that has been borrowed from another language (in this case, German) and is derived from schaden (harm) and freude (joy). Schaden is derived from the Middle High German schade and is a cognate – words having a common etymological origin – with the English “scathe.”

The exact definition of Schadenfreude is “the satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune.” There is a distinction between a “secret Schadenfreude,” harboring a private feeling, and an “open Schadenfreude,” a public display of ridicule. 

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