ressentiment
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- noun
- /ˌrɛsənˈtɪmənt/
- Formal
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ressentimiento
- As Max Scheier stressed in his account of ressentiment, true envy requires a hatred wherein the owner of a desired possession "is falsely considered the cause of our privation."
Examples
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Sometimes it is little more than bourgeois ressentiment, an attempt to turn the truth of the era's political closure into a desirable aesthetic.
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After years of feeling overlooked, his ressentiment towards the system grew stronger.
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Carol's rhetoric is now more clearly than ever a mixture of politics and ressentiment.
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Sense ressentiment.
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One would have to go into deep psychological impulses and ressentiment to fathom the hatred and obsessions involved, and don't ever think that an an-cap is very much different either.
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One of the things that strikes me is that there is a pervasive, almost Nietzschean resentment—a form of "ressentiment," the will to power of the powerless.
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While the entry makes it clear that its ressentiment is centered chiefly on the numbers of people compressed into the same car as Gombrowicz himself, "that mug ten centimeters away" does not exactly fade from readers.
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Michael Andre Bernstein, a professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, recently published Bitter Carnival: Ressentiment and the Abject Hero (Princeton University Press).
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Considering the political agendas behind the recent ressentiment against higher education, Sedgwick writes about what might recommend faculty work to the nonacademic public, whose labor is largely stipulated by a remorseless, profit-driven capitalism.
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" I'll not hold my breath for the apologies that are never forthcoming from the several despicable, pus-filled captains of ressentiment who answer Kent's perfectly reasonable criticism with venomous personal assaults.
Blog text (32)
Synonyms
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4.2
A long, strong feeling of anger toward someone who treated you unfairly
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A strong feeling of anger and hurt toward someone
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Strong anger that stays inside someone for a long time
Antonyms
How Resentful
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Morphology
Etymology
Ressentiment comes from the French verb ressentir, which is re- 'again' and sentir 'to feel'. So it suggests feeling hurt again and again, which is why ressentiment means a deep, long-lasting bitterness or anger.