Definitions For Ressentiment

Noun

RESSENTIMENT. (countable and uncountable, plural RESSENTIMENTs) {{obsolete form of, en, resentment}} 17th, 18th c. (chiefly, philosophy, social, _, psychology) a sense of resentment arising from deep-seated feelings of envy or hatred, leading the resentful one to blame it on an external agent. from 19th c.

Translations

obsolete: resentment, resentment Chinese: : Mandarin: 無名怨憤 (wúmíng yuànfèn), 無名怨忿 (wúmíng yuànfèn), 怨恨, tr=yuànhèn Dutch: verontwaardiging, f,vrevel, f,wrok, f Finnish: kauna French: ressentiment, m Japanese: 怨念, tr=おんねん, onnen, sc=Jpan, 恨み (うらみ, urami, sc=Jpan) Russian: злопыха́тельство, n, озлобле́ние, n

Etymology

{{root, en, ine-pro, *sent-, id=feel}} From {{bor, en, fr, ressentiment}}, from an archaic usage of the verb ressentir, via {{der, en, fro, sentir}} from Latin sentiō, sentīre ("to feel"); in the second sense a {{semantic loan, en, de, Ressentiment, nocap=1}}. {{doublet, en, resentiment, resentment}}.