Basically, that feeling you get watching America's Funniest Home Videos(or a similar show). You're feeling glad that you're not someone experiencing pain. The opposite of sympathy.
Watching someone get stacked(hit in the crotch) and either laughing or cringing. That's Schadenfreude.
by supergub November 01, 2009
The joy one feels when bad things happen to other people.
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The act of deriving pleasure from someone else's misfortune.
Orgin = German: Schaden, damage (from Middle High German schade, from Old High German scado) + Freude, joy (from Middle High German vreude, from Old High German frewida, from fr, happy).
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The act of deriving pleasure from someone else's misfortune.
Orgin = German: Schaden, damage (from Middle High German schade, from Old High German scado) + Freude, joy (from Middle High German vreude, from Old High German frewida, from fr, happy).
An sense of schadenfreude came over me as I watched a Chevy Suburban with a "W" bumpersticker pull into a gas station advertising $3.89 per gallon.
by Stevo B May 04, 2006
German for unanticipated delight in the suffering of another which is cognized as trivial and/or appropriate.
Simply it is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
Simply it is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
They got a good laugh out of watching the waitress trip and fall while carrying a huge tray of food. That is schadenfreude.
by aw182006 February 13, 2009
To gloat at another's worst luck: malicious and even sadistic pleasure in some other person's horrible misfortune.
German and American car companies have given new meaning to schadenfreudeing, over Toyota's miscalulation.
by Guido1 February 04, 2010
A feeling of schadenfreud swept over Camille as she watched her roommate Allison suffer through 75 pages of Freud. Camille had endured hours of difficult nursing classes, but Allison had an easy major and coasted through college... until now. Sweet revenge.
by andlearprincessoftherainbows September 06, 2011
getting off on others' misery
by bob the bleeder July 22, 2003
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