No, German doesn’t have a word for that.
by Juli Fraga about the purported opposite of schadenfreude. “Finding pleasure in another person’s good fortune,” Fraga writes, “is what social scientists call ‘freudenfreude,’ a term that describes the bliss we feel when someone else succeeds, even if it doesn’t directly involve us.
On Nov. 28, the Times ran a correction, which I sincerely hope the aggrieved Germans took as a satisfactory admission of wrongdoing. Still, however, I can see how freudenfreude came about. Because English speakers don’t know many other German words for context, we think:
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