Glückschmerz
German: the pain of someone else's good fortune.
German: the pain of someone else's good fortune. The body holds this signal first, often before the mind has named what is happening. Glückschmerz is a German term that captures something many languages do not have a single word for.
Where glückschmerz lives in the body
Face
Heat, flush, expression building
Chest
A faint pull
Related emotions
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