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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months 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@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

That's more like the category of thing.

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've got two words: vicarious anger.

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

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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