epicaricacy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπιχαιρεκακία (epikhairekakía, “joy upon evil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛpɪˈkæɹɪkəsi/

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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

• Afrikaans: leedvermaak
• Albanian: dashakeqje
• Arabic: شَمَاتَة‏‎ f (šamāta)
• Belarusian: злара́днасць f (zlarádnascʹ)
• Bulgarian: злора́дство (bg) n (zlorádstvo)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 幸災樂禍, 幸灾乐祸 (hang⁶ zoi¹ lok⁶ wo⁶)

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

• Czech: škodolibost (cs) f
• Danish: skadefryd c
• Dutch: leedvermaak (nl) n, schadevreugde f
• Esperanto: difektoĝojo
• Estonian: kahjurõõm (et)
• Finnish: vahingonilo (fi)
• French: joie maligne f, schadenfreude (fr) f
• Galician: ledicia do mal alleo
• German: Schadenfreude (de) f
• Greek: χαιρεκακία (el) f (chairekakía)
• Hebrew: שִׂמְחָה לְאֵיד‏‎ (he) f
• Hindi: शाडन्फ़्रॉएड (śāḍanfrŏeḍ)
• Hungarian: káröröm (hu)
• Icelandic: þórðargleði f, meinfýsni f
• Italian: gioia maligna f

• Japanese: シャーデンフロイデ (shādenfuroide), 幸災楽禍 (こうさいらくか, kōsairakuka), (internet slang) メシウマ (meshiuma), 他人の不幸は蜜の味 (tanin no fukō wa mitsu no aji) (proverb)
• Korean: 샤덴프로이데 (syadenpeuroide), 고소하다 (ko) (gosohada)
• Macedonian: злорадост f (zloradost)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skadefryd m

  Nynorsk: skadefryd m

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

  Cyrillic: злурадост f, злорадoст f, злyрад f

  Roman: zluradost (sh) f, zloradost f, zlurad (sh) f

• Slovak: škodoradosť f
• Slovene: škodoželje n
• Spanish: alegría maligna f, satisfacción malévola f, regodeo morboso m, alegría de mal ajeno f, epicaricacía f, schadenfreude, epicaricacia f
• Swedish: skadeglädje (sv)
• Ukrainian: зловті́ха f (zlovtíxa)
• Volapük: badöfafred (vo)

See also

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

Further reading

• 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