Ennui is word that is simply cool to say. “on wee” provides no clue as to its meaning, which actually expresses a world weariness manifested in boredom. It is not anxiety ridden like “angst” or quite as painful and dejected as the German counterpart “weltschmerz”, a word with too many consonants and not enough vowels. Paradoxically I find saying “ennui” cheers me up, which no doubt depresses the heck out of the word gods, giving them loads of a
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