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What is weltschmerz?

What is weltschmerz? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (capitalized) World-weariness; an apathetic or pessimistic view of life; depression concerning or discomfort with the human condition or state of the world.
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Staging the global weltschmerz but not making a fetish of it, these curators and artists wrest compelling propositions from the vexations of their respective forms.
He cannot resist a certain amount of Weltschmerz in his adaptation that is melting into bliss under the stronghold of Gililov's happy-go-lucky piano.
Solomon Gabirol may be said to have been the first poet thrilled by Weltschmerz.
It was no longer the Weltschmerz, but a Privatschmerz,32 that afflicted me.
But if so, it's curious that the phrase, so full of youthful weltschmerz, stayed with Wallace.
Weltschmerz is essentially a symptom of a period of conflict, of transition.

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