Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A generalized feeling of resentment and often hostility harbored by one individual or group against another, especially chronically and with no means of direct expression.
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- noun philosophy, psychology A sense of
resentment ,hostility and perhapsjealousy directed at that which one identifies as the cause of one'sfrustration ; an assignation ofblame .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Chestnut tresses, once close-cut and well-kempt, fall almost to his shoulders which slump in ressentiment: * to every hair however stray, those shoulders seem to say, Halt!
wine maker 2010
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I don’t know whether this is true or not, but it does seem a little odd to see Jonah saying it given how utterly, undisguisedly saturated in ressentiment contemporary conservative rhetoric is.
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Nietzsche called this ressentiment which is commensurate with things like 'slave morality,' so you don't need me to give you a primer on Nietzsche to know that it's bad, and it is, apparently, flourishing in the blogosphere.
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Nietzsche called this ressentiment which is commensurate with things like 'slave morality,' so you don't need me to give you a primer on Nietzsche to know that it's bad, and it is, apparently, flourishing in the blogosphere.
Archive 2006-03-05 2006
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ un échantillon (m) = sample; le ressentiment (m) = resentment; oui ... oui chéri (e) = yes ... yes dear
wine maker 2010
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Similarly, at the core of what Nietzsche meant by evil was the concept of ressentiment--a particularly virulent and violent form of resentment and hatred born of impotence.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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On second thought, this still may qualify as privileged white boy ressentiment.
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But there's something contemptible about those who knowingly channel ressentiment against the vulnerable few who are trying to call attention to its real causes.
Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS Jim Sleeper 2011
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The purpose of the eternal recurrence is to eliminate feelings of guilt, which lead to ressentiment.
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When the Republican party no longer becomes a party authoritarian obediance and ressentiment, this will change.
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