Meaning of grundstemning | Babel Free

Definitions

general state of mind; basic mood

Examples

“Som de fleste unge havde jeg en grundstemning af dvaskhed og nihilisme afbrydt af glimtvis begejstring.”

Like most young people, I had a baseline mood of lethargy and nihilism interrupted by glimpses of enthusiasm.

“Vi kan opsummere det foregående i følgende bestemmelse af lykke forstået som grundstemning.”

We can sum up the preceding in the following determination of happiness understood as a long-term emotion.

“1965, Filologisk-historiske samfund (Denmark), Henry Brunn, John Pedersen, Studier fra sprog- og oldtidsforskning Kan den, der læser Bogen, finde ind til samme Grundstemning, som beherskede Forfatteren, da han skrev den, er Kunstens Maal naaet.”

If the reader of the book can make their way inwards to the same general state of mind that dominated the author when he wrote it, the goal of art has been achieved.

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