epicaricacy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπί ‎(epí, “upon”) + χαρά ‎(khará, “joy”) + κακός ‎(kakós, “evil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛpɪˈkærɪkəsi/

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Noun

epicaricacy ‎(uncountable)

1. (rare) Rejoicing at or deriving pleasure from the misfortunes of others.

Usage notes

• The word is mentioned in some early dictionaries, but there is little or no evidence of actual usage until it was picked up by various "interesting word" websites around the turn of the twenty-first century.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:epicaricacy.

Synonyms

• schadenfreude

Translations

rejoicing at or deriving pleasure from the misfortunes of others

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幸災樂禍, 幸灾乐祸 (zh) ‎(xìngzāilèhuò)

• Dutch: leedvermaak (nl) n
• Finnish: vahingonilo (fi)
• French: joie maligne f
• German: Schadenfreude (de) f
• Hebrew: שמחה לאיד (he)
• Hungarian: káröröm (hu)
• Italian: gioia maligna f
• Korean: 고소하다 (ko) ‎(gosohada)

• Norwegian: skadefryd
• Portuguese: Schadenfreude (pt) f
• Russian: злора́дство (ru) n ‎(zlorádstvo)
• Scottish Gaelic: aighear-truaighe m, aighear millteach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: злорадост f

  Roman: zloradost f

• Spanish: alegría maligna f, satisfacción malévola f, epicaricacía f, schadenfreude, epicaricacia f
• Swedish: skadeglädje (sv)

See also

• gloating
• sadism
• sardonic
• schadenfreude
• Ucalegon
• lulz

External links

Wikipedia

• infopop.cc
• wordsmith.org
• Powellsbooks.blog
• Google book search on epikhairekakia
• Google book search on Epichaerecacia

References

• Bailey, Nathan (1737) Universal Etymological English Dictionary^[1], London
• Bailey, Nathan (1751) Dictionarium Britannicum, London
• Shipley, Joseph T. (1955) Dictionary of Early English, Philosophical Library, ISBN 13: 978-0806529264
• Novobatzky, Peter; Shea , Ammon (1955) Depraved and Insulting English, Harvest Books, ISBN 13: 978-0156011495