delectation in Misfortune

A new article offers a potential explanation as to why we take pleasure in the misfortune of others: schadenfreude. Pleasure arising from another's misfortune crossword puzzle clue has 1 possible answer and appears in 1 publication. Schadenfreude roughly means to take pleasure in an ex's misfortune? The fact that it has such a bizarre meaning, subject to german. Aaron Ben-Ze'ev's Depiction of Emotions as Adaptive Mechanisms.