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the state of being world-weary; sadness caused by the ongoing tribulations of the world; pessimism over the future of mankind
1891Peter Ibbetson Often the inquisitive passer-by, had he peeped through the blinds of No.—Wharton Street, Pentonville, late at night, would have been rewarded by the touching spectacle of a huge, rawboned ex-private in her Majesty's Life Guards, with his head bowed over the black and yellow key-board of a venerable square piano-forte (on which he could not play), dropping the bitter tear of loneliness and Weltschmertz combined. 1923Lights...the pessimism of old thinkers does not take the form of idle talk, as it does with you and me, but of Weltschmertz, of suffering…Labels: Anton Chekhov, George du Maurier
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