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Re:Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms (2017) by kergonath on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @11:11AM (#40512777)
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.
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Re:Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms (2017) by adammarples on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @05:40PM (#40517361)
I can't think of a single-word translation for schadenfreude either, but that doesn't mean anything
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Re:Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms (2017) by thsksbd on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @07:30PM (#40518372)
TIL Epicaricacy, from ancient Greek ( it was unlikely that the Ancient Greeks didn't have a word for something such a human flaw.
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Re:Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms (2017) by selenography on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:10PM (#40518666)
"epicaricacy" fails the simplest test for word-ness: it's never used without an explanation of its meaning. (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.

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