Politikverdrossenheit – contempt for the political establishment.

The German language allows for making new words by concatenating existing words. In English, we just have phrases that are often repeated. New German words, though, have a certain appeal in that they usually encapsulate an idea much better than a phrase.

As an English speaker, words like Schadenfreude, Weltschmerz, Zeitgeist, and Realpolitik (German nouns are capitalized) seem more precise in meaning, because they do not depend on the use of familiar ordinary words.

John Ballard sent me this word – thanks, John.