schadenfreuder

schadenfreuder

English

Alternative forms

• Schadenfreuder

Etymology

schadenfreude +‎ -er

Noun

schadenfreuder (plural schadenfreuders)

1. (rare) a person experiencing schadenfreude
   • 2000, Arthur Laurents, Original story by: a memoir of Broadway and Hollywood, p. 309:

     One rehearsal, then the Reading in a large, professional rehearsal room before an audience of forty or fifty including interested producers, possible investor, skeptical staff, sages, agents, spies, a few friends, a few Schadenfreuders and the author.

   • Harry Mathews, In praise of Heinrich Heine:

     Unluck cleaving to him made him no schadenfreuder—

     What was plus or minus? He loved the least cat.