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German Loanwords

Zeitgeist, schadenfreude, doppelgänger — German specializes in compact words for emotional states English never bothered to name.

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A look-alike — originally a ghostly double, now any uncanny twin.

School for very young children — and a near-invisible German loanword in English.

Pleasure derived from someone else's misfortune.

A strong urge to travel.

The defining mood, ideas, or anxieties of a particular era.

A coming-of-age story — a young protagonist's psychological and moral education.

The whole is something other than the sum of its parts.

Politics conducted on the basis of pragmatic interests rather than morals or ideology.

Nietzsche's figure of someone who creates their own values after the death of God.

A comprehensive, ideologically loaded way of seeing the world.