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Today’s word is ‘weltschmerz’ — a German term meaning “world-pain.” It describes a unique kind of melancholy: that deep, existential sadness and disillusionment about the world’s imperfections.
In times like these, when optimism feels harder to come by, weltschmerz resonates as we sit with the gap between our ideals and the reality happening around us.
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