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I got this question from [livejournal.com profile] foolcat a little while ago, and haven't been able to think of an answer, so I thought I'd throw it to the group mind and see if anyone knows...

I'm still searching for a word. The pleasure one derives from pleasing someone else. Pleasure from another's pain is called Schadenfreude; but what of another's pleasure? No one seems to know this one.

Date: 2006-09-01 06:17 am (UTC)

Date: 2006-09-01 07:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deguspice.livejournal.com
That's the first thing that came to mind for me.

Date: 2006-09-01 11:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] donnad.livejournal.com
satisfaction?

Date: 2006-09-01 12:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bug-mama.livejournal.com
If one assumes an element of sacrifice it would be alturism.

Love?

Date: 2006-09-01 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foolcat.livejournal.com
Love implies an intimacy and ongoing closeness that I'm not thinking of here.
Something not so personal is what I'm going for.

Date: 2006-09-01 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] michelel72.livejournal.com
Good old Wikipedia offers "In Buddhism, the concept of mudita, "sympathetic joy" or "happiness in another's good fortune," is often explained as "the opposite of schadenfreude."

Date: 2006-09-01 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pandorahunter.livejournal.com
I'm with LOVE

Date: 2006-09-02 03:24 am (UTC)
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
Compersion.

Date: 2006-09-03 02:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pressburger.livejournal.com
Love, puke. I'm with Wikipedia.

Date: 2006-09-05 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com
I don't think that fits, it's too general (and wouldn't always apply).

Date: 2006-09-05 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com
Not quite but someone did find a good answer.

Date: 2006-09-05 03:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com
Too general...

Date: 2006-09-05 03:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com
I don't think that always brings pleasure, though.

Date: 2006-09-05 03:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com
Yes! Exactly! Thanks so much for finding that.

Re: Love?

Date: 2006-09-05 03:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com
Somebody came up with what seems to be the right answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudita

Date: 2006-09-05 03:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com
Too general, I think.

Date: 2006-09-05 03:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com
I can't find that in my Webster's Unabridged... can you define it?

Date: 2006-09-05 03:46 am (UTC)

Date: 2006-09-06 05:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com
Ah, OK. I think that's too specific. (Someone else did come up with a good answer, though.)

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