pleasure in Misfortune
Schadenfreude definition, satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune. Have you ever wished or imagined misfortune visiting someone who offended or upset you in some cases, we experience schadenfreude, but we don't like to think about it too much. An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works. Originally Answered: Why do some people get pleasure from the misfortune of the misfortunes of others—esp. Schadenfreude, which literally means “harm joy†in German, is the.