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Thu 2 Feb, 2006 04:57 pm
What's the word that expresses the feeling of someone who's going (out loud or inside), "See! Told you so! I knew that was going to happen, didnt i say so? But you didnt believe me, oh no... well, now here you are!"
Looking for a noun...
It's almost schadenfreude, but not quite.
Gloating?
Heh.
Still not quite.
Its not glee, cause thats too happy ... its something more determined, a kind of satisfaction that involves teethgritting as well ... its on the tip of my tongue ... or it was, a while ago, and then I lost it altogether...
That still seems too happy for what he means.
Justified?
The Webster dictionary indirectly comes up with "gratification" as synonym for gloating... that is, the definition says: "to observe [..] something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification" ... that is kinda what i mean ...
Ergh, i hate this feeling.
Smugness, gratification, both in any case already work better than just "joy", which is what's in the text (I'm editing) now ...
If you mean more than just "Aha! Told you so," perhaps vindicated would fit.
VINDICATED!
That's so it.
Joeblow's gonna be all smug now.
ha!
I sooooooo heard that voice.
Yeah, vindicated is good - adjective though. So - vindication
I also like 'comeupance', as in "you got your comeupance".
Pippa's paean:
"God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world."
boast, gloat, arrogance, conceited, swaggering, exult. I think exult is more appropriate for this description of the word since it constitutes being triumphant about someone elses mistake or something unpleasant that happened to them.
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