Relating to or reminiscent of The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), an epistolary and loosely autobiographicalnovel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774, with a theme of heartbreak leading to suicide.
Origin
Werther + -ian
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