Wertherism (English, noun)
expansion: Wertherism (uncountable)
Senses:
glosses: The kind of sentimentality depicted in The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774, with a theme of heartbreak leading to suicide.
tags: uncountable
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