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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If cringe means I'm embarrassed for someone else, what's the word for being pissed off for someone else? I'm that.

[–] TronnaRaps 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's more like the category of thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got two words: vicarious anger.

I do not see a single word for it, somebody alert the Germans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Either German doesn't have a single word for it, which I find unlikely, or Google translate doesn't know the word for it