Also Werterism. [f. as prec. + -ISM.] Morbid sentimentality.
1831. Carlyle, Charact., Ess. 1872, IV. 26. Werterism, Byronism, even Brummelism, each has its day.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, III. 471. My German stopped As germane Wertherism.
1873. Hamerton, Intell. Life, X. ii. 345. Goethe … cured himself very soon, and the author of ‘Werther’ had no indulgence for Wertherism.
