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  2. Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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    Words for these concepts are sometimes cited as antonyms to schadenfreude, as each is the opposite in some way. There is no common English term for pleasure at another's happiness (i.e.; vicarious joy), though terms like 'celebrate', 'cheer', 'congratulate', 'applaud', 'rejoice' or 'kudos' often describe a shared or reciprocal form of pleasure.

  3. Downfall (Dorries book) - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Downfall: The Self-Destruction of the Conservative Party is a 2024 book by ...

  4. Achilles' heel - Wikipedia

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    An Achilles' heel [1] (or Achilles heel [2] [3]) is a weakness despite overall strength, which can lead to downfall. While the mythological origin refers to a physical vulnerability, idiomatic references to other attributes or qualities that can lead to downfall are common.

  5. Peripeteia - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle, in his Poetics, defines peripeteia as "a change by which the action veers round to its opposite, subject always to our rule of probability or necessity."." According to Aristotle, peripeteia, along with discovery, is the most effective when it comes to drama, particularly in a

  6. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Some pairs of contronyms are true homographs, i.e., distinct words with different etymologies which happen to have the same form. [7] For instance cleave "separate" is from Old English clēofan, while cleave "adhere" is from Old English clifian, which was pronounced differently.

  7. Downfall - Wikipedia

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    The Downfall, an 1892 book by Émile Zola; Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, a 1999 book by Richard B. Frank about the last days of World War II; Downfall, a 2001 Dragonlance novel by Jean Rabe; Downfall, a 2007 novel in the LEGO Bionicle Legends series; Downfall (McCombes book), a 2011 book about the political career of Tommy ...

  8. Talk:Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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    As the current "Related words" section says, there are many words that could be considered "antonyms" for schadenfreude, in different directions: envy, compassion, mudita. I see no reason that any of them should be mentioned in the lead, any more than we mention antonyms of pride, peace, depression, etc., in their articles' leads.

  9. Opposite (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings. Gradable antonyms. A gradable antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings where the two meanings lie on a continuous spectrum.