Usually means: Sorrow for the world's pain.
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  1. weltschmerz: Merriam-Webster
  2. Weltschmerz: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Weltschmerz: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  5. Weltschmerz: Vocabulary.com
  6. Weltschmerz: Wordnik
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  8. Weltschmerz: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Weltschmerz: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  11. weltschmerz: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Weltschmerz (comic strip), Weltschmerz (comics), Weltschmerz: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  17. Weltschmerz: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Weltschmerz)

noun:  An apathetic or pessimistic view of life; depression concerning or discomfort with the human condition or state of the world; mal du siècle, world-weariness.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Weltschmerz [An apathetic or pessimistic view of life; depression concerning or discomfort with the human condition or state of the world; mal du siècle, world-weariness.]

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