lamenting the state of the world; deploring public affairs
A formal, literary noun expressing sorrow or indignation at the course of society or current events. Rare in modern conversation; mostly found in older or elevated writing.
His writing is imbued with a sense of lament over the state of the world.
patriotic concern for the nation's state
patriotic concern for the nation's state
Compound of 慨 (lament, deplore) and 世 (world, society). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; it appears in literary and intellectual contexts from the late Edo to Meiji periods.