(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.”