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- French · borrowed frommal du siècle
- English todaymal du siècle
Borrowed from French mal du siècle (literally “disease of the century”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mal du siècle
Today it means: Apathy and world-weariness, involving pessimism towards the current state of the world, often along with nostalgia for the past, originally in the context of French Romanticism; Weltschmerz. Full definition →
French mal du siècle