delight in Misfortune

A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasureSchadenfreude - enjoying the pain of others, edited by Wilco W. Epicaricacy Feeling of joy in the pain and failures of others is to be less acceptable than. To start with, one must be careful to avoid feeling the secret pleasure when news breaks about another person's misfortune. When someone suffers a mishap, a setback or a downfall, we sometimes find ourselves experiencing schadenfreude - an emotion defined as deriving pleasure. Taking pleasure at the misfortune of others: schadenfreude.