German. There is not an English word for it, but for us I believe it means pleasure from others pain.
The opposite of schadenfreude would be sorrow at the good fortune of others, which is called Gluckschmerz. The concept of happiness for another's happiness is mudita.
"I was driven by schadenfreude to do it" "I reveled in the sense of schadenfreude when I saw the armed robber run over by a dump truck as he tried to run back to his car."
Well, first you would invent a language and call it American, since Americans speak English, not American. Then, since it's a German word, you would pronounce it the way they do in Germany.
The English spelling is normally uncapitalized as schadenfreude. The German noun is capitalized, and the adjective form is schadenfroh.The term basically means "taking pleasure in the misfortune of others".
"it" already is an English word.
The German language is famous for having a special word for that: "Schadenfreude", which also exists in English as a loanword, or so I have heard.
The opposite of schadenfreude would be sorrow at the good fortune of others, which is called Gluckschmerz. The concept of happiness for another's happiness is mudita.
"I was driven by schadenfreude to do it" "I reveled in the sense of schadenfreude when I saw the armed robber run over by a dump truck as he tried to run back to his car."
Schadenfreude means to take pleasure at someone else's misfortune. It's a borrowed word from German.
Schadenfreude. Discussion and pronunciation help is available on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude is a word that describes the feeling of pleasure from seeing others experience misfortune. The word has its roots in German, and it translates to English as "damage joy".
Schadenfreude.
It's lifted straight from Latin. That's the beauty of English. If we haven't got an appropriate word for something, then we'll just take it from a language that does. Schadenfreude is probably my favourite example.
Pleasure derived from another's misfortune.
Schadenfreude
You would feel schadenfreude when your enemy failes
I think the word you're looking for is Schadenfreude