Whimsy

A Spleen (from English spleen borrowed ; pronounced [ splin ]) - even craze , Tick and a fad or whim - colloquially usually pejoratively a slight madness or obsession . The term is often used in connection with eccentrics .

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The term spleen originally denotes the spleen in English ( English spleen , ancient Greek σπλήν splēn ) as well as translated "bad mood, anger, frustration". The spleen was considered to be the seat of certain emotional forces and, in the case of illness, the cause of hypochondria ("spleen addiction").

Already Galen (2nd century AD) saw the origin of melancholy in an excess of black bile , one of the four humors that are produced in the spleen, among other things. In the French language, the term splénétique, synonymous with Weltschmerz or melancholy, was popularized by Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) and addressed in his works such as Les Fleurs du Mal . Today in slang means "to have a Spleen" a small craze, fad, weird idea or fad to have.

Another (also colloquial) word is fimmel , for example in "Putzfimmel" or "Modefimmel".

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Wiktionary: Fimmel - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: Quirk - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: Spleen - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: Tick - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Online collection of spleens

Individual evidence

↑ Whimsy. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved December 29, 2019
↑ ^a ^b ^c Duden . The large dictionary of the German language in 10 volumes . 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1999; see also Spleen on duden.de
↑ Spleen addiction . In: Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect. Leipzig 1798, Volume 3, p. 213; on zeno.org
^ Ralf-Dieter Hofheinz: Spleen diseases. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 993 f .; here: p. 993.
^ Ariane Wild: Poetology and Décadence in the Poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaines, Trakls and Rilkes. In: Epistemata. Literary studies series. Volume 387, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2214-9 (Diss. Univ. Freiburg (Brsg.), 2000)
↑ Fimmel (quirk, habit) . Duden.de, Bibliographical Institute, 2017

[1] Whimsy. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved December 29, 2019

[duden-2] Duden . The large dictionary of the German language in 10 volumes . 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1999; see also Spleen on duden.de

[3] Spleen addiction . In: Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect. Leipzig 1798, Volume 3, p. 213; on zeno.org

[4] Ralf-Dieter Hofheinz: Spleen diseases. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 993 f .; here: p. 993.

[5] Ariane Wild: Poetology and Décadence in the Poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaines, Trakls and Rilkes. In: Epistemata. Literary studies series. Volume 387, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2214-9 (Diss. Univ. Freiburg (Brsg.), 2000)

[6] Fimmel (quirk, habit) . Duden.de, Bibliographical Institute, 2017