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If cringe means I'm embarrassed for someone else, what's the word for being pissed off for someone else? I'm that.
Empathy?
That's more like the category of thing.
I've got two words: vicarious anger.
I do not see a single word for it, somebody alert the Germans.
Fremdwut
Either German doesn't have a single word for it, which I find unlikely, or Google translate doesn't know the word for it