mal du siècle

短语

发音

/ˌmæl.duˈsjɛk.l(ə)/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

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词源

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

来源：wiktionary