Schadenfreuder
Alternative forms
Origin
en + -schadenfreude + er
Full definition of schadenfreuder
Noun
schadenfreuder
(plural schadenfreuders)- (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.