Wertherism
Meanings
noun
- The kind of sentimentality depicted in The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774, with a theme of heartbreak leading to suicide.
Word forms
Etymology
From Werther + -ism.
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