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drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die of it
means A lingering bitterness or indignation held against someone for a perceived wrong, replayed and nursed over time.
from From French 'ressentiment,' from 'ressentir' — to feel again, to feel intensely — built from the intensive prefix 're-' and 'sentir,' 'to feel' (from Latin 'sentire'). At its root it literally means a re-feeling: an emotion you go back and feel once more, and once more, until it sours.
- latin root
- sentire, to feel — but feeling it again and again
- body cost
- chronic grudges raise blood pressure and cortisol
- nietzsche's word
- he called it ressentiment, morality's secret engine
- memory bias
- the brain replays offenses sharper than kindnesses
- forgiveness studies
- letting go measurably lowers heart rate
arab-israeli conflict — decades of mutual resentment between palestinians and israelis over land, since 1948
india-pakistan partition — 1947 division created lasting resentment between hindu majority india and muslim pakistan
french-german rivalry — centuries of resentment culminating in three wars between 1870-1945