Schadenfreude Schadenfreude Schadenfreude (; ; 'harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. It is one of four related emotions or concepts. Schadenfreude is a complex negative emotion. Rather than feeling sympathy towards someone's misfortune, schadenfreude evokes joyful feelings that take pleasure from watching someone fail. This emotion is displayed more in children than adults, however adults also experience schadenfreude, they are just better at concealing their expressions. "Schadenfreude" is borrowed from German; it is a compound of "Schaden", "damage, harm", and "Freude", "joy". The German
Man (word) Man (word) The term "man" (from Proto-Germanic "*mannaz" or "*manwaz" "man, person") and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their sex or age. In traditional usage, "man" (without an article) itself refers to the species, to humanity, or "mankind", as a whole. The Germanic word developed into Old English "man, mann" meaning primarily "adult male human" but secondarily capable of designating a person of unspecified gender, "someone, one" or humanity at large (see also Old Norse "maðr", Gothic "manna" "man"). "*Mannaz" or "*Manwaz" is also the Proto-Germanic reconstructed name of