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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Relating to or reminiscent of 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.

   "Wertherian melancholy"

Etymology

From Werther + -ian.

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