Citations:epicaricacy

English citations of epicaricacy

• 2007, Dickie, “A homo at the trainstation thread for Connor”, in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly (Usenet):

  Yo, Doktor Schadenfreud! Your epicene epicaricacy is peeking out from under your leiderschaftslos lederhosen...

• 2007, Some Guy, “First Edition Player's Handbook”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):

  Produce for me a torrent of lachymosity; your scrannel epicaricacy and mordant xerosis render you in sore need of diluvial refreshment.

• Elias Khalil (2007) “The Mirror-Neuron Paradox: How Far is Sympathy from Compassion, Indulgence, and Adulation?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name): “Spite or malevolence is probably a more complex form of "schadenfreude" (from German) or "epicaricacy" (from Greek).”
• 2008: Robert Augustus Masters, The Crucible of Awakening, Issue №42 (October 2008), §: “Schadenfreude Exposed”, page 2

  There’s an emotion, a very common emotion, for which there’s no word in English (other than perhaps the extremely obscure and pronunciation-hobbled epicaricacy), an emotion that is all about taking pleasure in others’ misfortune or suffering.

• 2014: Avinash Kunnath, "Northwestern writers predicted total victory over Cal! Commence Pat Fitzgerald epicaricacy" SB Nation, California Golden Blogs, 3 September 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
• 2015: Lotte Roelofs, Peter Pan and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: The Influence of Dystopian Elements on the Teaching of Morals, Bachelor thesis, Utrecht University: p16.

  Wendy and her brothers soon discover his cockiness, carelessness and his love for epicaricacy.

• 2016: Brad Dobney Loving to Hate: Where are our rivals on the bubble? SB Nation, Banners on the Parkway, 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March, 2016.

  It doesn't come close to as happy as I get when Xavier wins, but epicaricacy is kind of my thing.

Recent internet sightings

• 2004, Paolo Tullio, “Kevin O'Neill's”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

  Epicaricacy may not be the noblest of emotions, but at times like these it's hard not to succumb.

• 2008, rittinger, “The End of the Affair: The Democrat Party’s Humiliating Walk of Shame”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2]:

  I must confess, as a devotee of schadenfreude I am deriving more pleasure from the Democrat Party primary process than is typically legal in most jurisdictions–save Nevada. And in the wake of the Pennsylvania Primary, I am experiencing such an intense feeling of epicaricacy that even being subjected to a 24 hour marathon of Countdown with Keith Olbermann couldn’t wipe the smile off my face.

• 2014, Avinash Kunath, “Northwestern writers predicted total victory over Cal! Commence Pat Fitzgerald epicaricacy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[3]:

  Commence Pat Fitzgerald epicaricacy

Mentions of epicaricacy

• 1955, Peter Novobatzky, Depraved and Insulting English:

  The residents of quiet, tree-lined Bowker Street were a peaceful lot as a rule, but their feathers got a bit ruffled when the local ice cream truck man refused to lower the volume of the horrid wheedling music his vehicle constantly emanated. And so when the deranged war veteran from the next block destroyed the truck with a bazooka one fine spring morning, they all felt the warm glow of epicaricacy spreading through their veins.

Citations of related words

• 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:

  Out of these two arise those mixed affections and passions of anger, which is a desire of revenge; hatred, which is inveterate anger; zeal, which is offended with him who hurts that he loves; and ἐπιχαιρεκακία [epikhairekakia], a compound affection of joy and hate, when we rejoice at other men's mischief, and are grieved at their prosperity; pride, self-love, emulation, envy, shame, &c., of which elsewhere.

• 1933, C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress:

  'Our father was married twice,' continued Humanist. 'Once to a lady named Epichaerecacia, and afterwords to Euphuia..."

• 2005, Victoria Pedrick, Steven M. Oberhelman, Literary Criticism:

  ... where Aristotle exploits the threefold classification of virtues and emotions according to excess, mean, and deficiency, he uses the term epikhairekakia ...