Is there a name for the feeling of being happy for someone else, because of their situation or success?

[samir@mastodon.functional.computer]

Is there a name for the feeling of being happy for someone else, because of their situation or success?

A positive equivalent to jealousy?

(Maybe there’s a German word?)

[mahryekuh@fosstodon.org]

@samir I've wondered that myself. It doesn't exist in Dutch either, I think.

[samir@mastodon.functional.computer]

@mahryekuh We Northern Europeans are miserable people, it seems!

Fortunately, we can change that. I’m gonna give it a day and then invent one.

[mahryekuh@fosstodon.org]

@samir Good idea!

I couldn't find an alternative here:
https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/53131/looking-for-the-opposite-of-schadenfreude