Do you ever find yourself wishing there was a word for that? Of course you do! And there very likely is the perfect word, only not in English.
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L'esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Pena ajena: (Mexican Spanish) The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation.
Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Schadenfreude: (German) the pleasure derived from someone else’s pain.
Age-otori (Japanese) To look worse after a haircut.
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