"weltanschauung," "WELTSCHMERZ," "zeitgeist," Part 3

       "Weltschmerz" (VELT-shmairts), wonderful sound, translates to "world pain," and our word "smart" as a stinging pain is akin to that second syllable just as "world" and German welt share kinship (Merriam-Webster).  Weltschmerz is "sadness over the evils of the world, especially as an expression of romantic pessimism" (AHD).

       Thus attuned to misery and human suffering, you'd be experiencing Weltschmerz, related to but a good deal stronger than what President Jimmy Carter referred to in America as "a malaise."