mal du sièclen.

Brit.

/ˌmal duː ˈsjɛkl(ə)/, U.S.

/ˌmæl du ˈsjɛkl/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mal du siècle.

Etymology: < French mal du siècle (1803; defined in Trésor de la langue française as ‘État de malaise, de tristesse, de dégoût de vivre manifesté par la jeunesse romantique, et que Chateaubriand a peint dans le personnage de René’) < mal mal n. + du of the + siècle siecle n.; compare fin de siècle adj. and n.Not fully naturalized in English.

A condition of apathy and world-weariness, associated with pessimism concerning the state of the world, and often combined with nostalgia for the past. Cf. Weltschmerz n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > attitude to life or the world

taedium vitae1759

life-weariness1828

Weltschmerz1875

mal du siècle1926

1864 J. A. Symonds Let. 23 Nov. (1967) I. 510 Something..revealed them to me. You say they have ‘la maladie du Siècle’ already.

1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) v. 264 The least attractive side of his..nature..its dreary scepticism—his own unhappy portion of la maladie du siècle.]

1926 A. Huxley Ess. New & Old 38 The mal du siècle was an inevitable evil.

1957 G. Smith Friends ii. 36 A bijou house in Chelsea, premature obesity, mal du siècle and incipient gout.

1975 R. Howard tr. E. M. Cioran Short Hist. Decay iii. 116 There is a Weltschmerz, a mal du siècle, which is merely the illness of a generation.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mal du siècle
释义	mal du sièclen. Brit. /ˌmal duː ˈsjɛkl(ə)/, U.S. /ˌmæl du ˈsjɛkl/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mal du siècle. Etymology: < French mal du siècle (1803; defined in Trésor de la langue française as ‘État de malaise, de tristesse, de dégoût de vivre manifesté par la jeunesse romantique, et que Chateaubriand a peint dans le personnage de René’) < mal mal n. + du of the + siècle siecle n.; compare fin de siècle adj. and n.Not fully naturalized in English. A condition of apathy and world-weariness, associated with pessimism concerning the state of the world, and often combined with nostalgia for the past. Cf. Weltschmerz n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > attitude to life or the world taedium vitae1759 life-weariness1828 Weltschmerz1875 mal du siècle1926 1864 J. A. Symonds Let. 23 Nov. (1967) I. 510 Something..revealed them to me. You say they have ‘la maladie du Siècle’ already. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) v. 264 The least attractive side of his..nature..its dreary scepticism—his own unhappy portion of la maladie du siècle.] 1926 A. Huxley Ess. New & Old 38 The mal du siècle was an inevitable evil. 1957 G. Smith Friends ii. 36 A bijou house in Chelsea, premature obesity, mal du siècle and incipient gout. 1975 R. Howard tr. E. M. Cioran Short Hist. Decay iii. 116 There is a Weltschmerz, a mal du siècle, which is merely the illness of a generation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1926
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