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‖ mal du siècle|mal dy sjɛkl(ə)|
[Fr.]
World-weariness, weariness of life, deep melancholy because of the condition of the world.
In French with specific reference to the early 19th-c. Romantic poets.
1926A. Huxley Essays New & Old 38 The mal du siècle was an inevitable evil. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 16 June 439/1 We have the sentimental and practical romanticism, the mal du siècle. 1957G. Smith Friends ii. 36 A bijou house in Chelsea, premature obesity, mal du siècle and incipient gout. 1963R. Wellek in N. Frye Romanticism Reconsidered 109 Little has been accomplished by calling familiar states of mind—Weltschmerz, mal du siècle, pessimism—‘negative’ romanticism. |