[ noun ] sadness on thinking about the evils of the world <noun.feeling>
In a savagely defiant final tableau, von Stade's Merteuil - in a harsh caricature of Strauss' Capriccio Countess departing for a dinner of Weltschmerz - exits with the raspy, vulgar exclamation, 'I'm hungry.'
He follows an old writer (Curt Bois) into the library; together they wallow in Weltschmerz.