What is weltenschmertz?

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Why: Just read this live Tweeting of a blind date by BoobsRadley (from 16 hours ago):

• You guys, if I promise never to livetweet anything again, please let me livetweet the bad first date happening next to me at this bar.
• Okay. She just explained what Yelp is. He is trying to explain why hunting is still great if you don't eat what you kill.
• "Sometimes I worry that women find my voice annoying. I called my friend in Canada, he said 'It gets shrill when you try too hard.'" - him.
• "What is delerium tremens?" -her. "The beer and a side effect of alcoholism. Do you have any alcoholics in your family?" - him
• PS this bar is playing The Descent on IFC.
• OH MY GOD HE'S TALKING ABOUT HIS EX GIRLFRIEND! ps to give you a visual, he looks like tall bespectacled Ellen. She is an Asian pixie.
• She stopped talking! He commented on the weather THEN APOLOGIZED FOR COMMENTING ON THE WEATHER.
• "I dated a girl who was very slender. She runs faster than any dog I've ever seen." - him.
• Oh, you guys. I may have to stop. We've crossed from schadenfreude into weltenschmertz. He is verrrrrrry drunk.
• You guys, this was fun but now I feel like a dick. Dating is hard, like "The Descent."

Answer: First, it's actually Weltschmerz, and b) it's a specific type of German love-depression!

1. mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state
2. a mood of sentimental sadness

also:

• Sadness over the evils of the world, especially as an expression of romantic pessimism.

From Welt, "world" + Schmerz, "pain"

Pretty!

Source: Merriam-Webster, thefreedictionary,

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