Wertherian
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Wertherian (comparative more Wertherian, superlative most Wertherian)
- Relating to or reminiscent of The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774, with a theme of heartbreak leading to suicide.
- Wertherian melancholy