English Explanatory Dictionary

mal du siècle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Apathy and world-weariness, involving pessimism towards the current state of the world, often along with nostalgia for the past, originally in the context of French Romanticism; Weltschmerz.

Pronunciation

/ˌmæl.duˈsjɛk.l(ə)/

Word forms

mal du siècle

Etymology

Borrowed from French mal du siècle (literally “disease of the century”).

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