funktionslust
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German Funktionslust.
Noun[edit]
funktionslust (uncountable)
- A sense of joy or wellbeing an animal (including a human) gets from doing that which it is meant to do.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 124:
- It's also argued that running is central to what keeps us most human and healthy - that in running, humans experience funktionslust.