ressentiment
See also: Ressentiment and resentiment
English
Etymology
From French ressentiment, from an archaic usage of the verb ressentir, via Old French sentir from Latin sentiō, sentīre (“to feel”); in the second sense a semantic loan from German Ressentiment. Doublet of resentiment and resentment.
Pronunciation
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Noun
ressentiment (countable and uncountable, plural ressentiments)
- Obsolete form of resentment. [17th–18th c.]
- (chiefly philosophy, social psychology) A sense of resentment arising from suppressed feelings of envy and hatred, often leading to a frustrated sense of inferiority, with various social repercussions. [from 19th c.]
- 1973, Philippa Foot, "Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values" in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, p. 157:
- When the weak call the strong evil the move is not merely defensive; it is also an expression of that peculiar malice which Nietzsche referred to as ressentiment. Those who cultivate humility and the other propitiatory virtues to cloak their weakness nourish an envious resentment against those stronger than themselves.
- ibidem, page 167:
- If his attack on Christian morality and on other moralities is going to be worth anything he has got to be right about the effect of teaching pity and justice — that it merely hides the ressentiment of the weak while it does injury to the strong.
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 632:
- Historians such as Liah Greenfield and Daniel Chirot have attributed the major wars and genocides in the early decades of the 20th century to ressentiment in Germany and Russia.
- 1973, Philippa Foot, "Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values" in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, p. 157:
Translations
obsolete: resentment — see resentment
resentment arising from envy and hatred
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Further reading
- “ressentiment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “ressentiment, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “resentiment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “resentiment; resentment”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume IV, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 5100, column 2.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From ressentir + -ment, verbal root re- + sentir from Old French sentir from Latin sentiō, sentīre (“to feel”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ressentiment m (plural ressentiments)
Further reading
- “ressentiment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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