(n.) Weariness with the same
old issues that you’ve always had - the same boring flaws and anxieties you’ve been gnawing on for years, which leaves them
soggy and tasteless and inert, with nothing interesting left to think about, nothing left to do but
spit them out and wander off to the backyard, ready to dig up some fresher pain you might have buried long ago.
Derived from the
German word, weltschmerz. Welt means world, and schmerz means pain, so as a compound word, the combination, literally translated, means “world pain.”