Editing Schadenfreude (section)

== Related emotions or concepts ==
Permutations of the concept of pleasure at another's unhappiness are: pleasure at another's happiness, displeasure at another's happiness, and displeasure at another's unhappiness. Words for these concepts are sometimes cited as [[antonym]]s to schadenfreude, as each is the [[opposite (semantics)|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. The pseudo-German coinage ''freudenfreude'' is occasionally used in English.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Thayer |first=Nancy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B2N6Xw0bYooC&dq=freudenfreude&pg=PA264 |title=The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again |date=2005 |publisher=[[Random House Publishing Group]] |isbn=978-0-345-46918-2 |pages=264 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Portmann |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lgB5AgAAQBAJ&dq=freudenfreude&pg=PA187 |title=When Bad Things Happen to Other People |date=2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-00172-9 |pages=187 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Chambliss |first1=Catherine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n7U0vgAACAAJ |title=Empathy Rules: Depression, Schadenfreude and Freudenfreude Research on Depression Risk Factors and Treatment |last2=Hartl |first2=Amy |date=2016 |publisher=Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated |isbn=978-1-5361-0000-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Fraga |first=Juli |date=2022-11-25 |title=The Opposite of Schadenfreude Is Freudenfreude. Here's How to Cultivate It. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/well/mind/schadenfreude-freudenfreude.html |access-date=2022-11-26 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The Hebrew slang term ''[[firgun]]'' refers to happiness at another's accomplishment.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kordova |first1=Shoshana |title=Word of the Day / Firgun: The Art of Tooting Someone Else's Horn |url=https://www.haaretz.com/word-of-the-day-firgun-1.5260995 |work=Haaretz |date=25 August 2014 }}</ref>

Displeasure at another's happiness is involved in [[envy]], and perhaps in [[jealousy]].{{cn|date=November 2024}} The pseudo-German coinage "freudenschade" similarly means sorrow at another's success.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sivanandam |first1=Navin |date=April 28, 2006 |title=Freudenschade |url=http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/4/28/freudenschade |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513182307/http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/4/28/freudenschade |archive-date=May 13, 2008 |work=[[The Stanford Daily]] }}</ref> The correct form would be ''Freudenschaden'', since the pseudo-German coinage incorrectly assumes the ''n'' in ''Schadenfreude'' to be an [[interfix]] and the adjective {{lang|de|[[wikt:schade#German|schade]]}} ("unfortunate") a noun.

Displeasure at another's good fortune is ''Gluckschmerz'', a pseudo-German word coined in 1985 as a joke by the pseudonymous [[Wanda Tinasky]]; the correct German form would be ''Glücksschmerz''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Ben |title=Schadenfreude Is in the Zeitgeist, but Is There an Opposite Term? |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/schadenfreude-is-in-the-zeitgeist-but-is-there-an-opposite-term-1434129186 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=12 June 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Ron |last1=Rosenbaum |title=The Secret Parts of Fortune |year=2000 |isbn=0375503382 |page=645 |publisher=Random House }}</ref> It has since been used in academic contexts.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hoogland |first1=Charles E. |last2=Ryan Schurtz |first2=D. |last3=Cooper |first3=Chelsea M. |last4=Combs |first4=David J. Y. |last5=Brown |first5=Edward G. |last6=Smith |first6=Richard H. |title=The joy of pain and the pain of joy: In-group identification predicts schadenfreude and gluckschmerz following rival groups' fortunes |journal=[[Motivation and Emotion]] |date=5 November 2014 |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=260–281 |doi=10.1007/s11031-014-9447-9 |s2cid=40788728|issn=0146-7239 }}</ref>

Displeasure at another's unhappiness is [[sympathy]], [[pity]], or [[compassion]].{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

[[Sadistic personality disorder|Sadism]] gives pleasure through the ''infliction'' of pain, whereas schadenfreude is pleasure on ''observing'' misfortune and in particular, the fact that the other somehow deserved the misfortune.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Aaron |last1=Ben-Ze'ev |author-link1=Aaron Ben-Ze'ev |chapter=The personal comparative concern in schadenfreude |chapter-url={{Google books|0XnsAwAAQBAJ|page=77|plainurl=yes}} |pages=77–90 |editor1-last=Dijk |editor1-first=Wilco W. van |editor2-last=Ouwerkerk |editor2-first=Jaap W. |title=Schadenfreude: Understanding Pleasure at the Misfortune of Others |date=2014 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-1-107-01750-4 }}</ref>