WELTSCHMERZ
- often capitalized Weltschmerz mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state.
- sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life; sentimental pessimism.
- A feeling of melancholy and world-weariness
- (German) mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state [n -ES]