angst

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Introduced from Danish angst via existentialist Søren Kierkegaard, from Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust. See Proto-Indo-European *angh-. Also related to the German and Dutch Angst.

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[edit] Noun

Singular
angst

Plural
uncountable

angst (uncountable)

  1. A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
  2. More commonly, painful sadness or emotional turmoil, as teen angst.

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to angst

Third person singular
angsts

Simple past
angsted

Past participle
angsted

Present participle
angsting

to angst (third-person singular simple present angsts, present participle angsting, simple past and past participle angsted)

  1. (informal) To suffer angst; to fret.
    • 2001, Joseph P Natoli, Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture, 1996-1998
      In the second scene, the camera switches to the father listening, angsting, dying inside, but saying nothing.
    • 2006, Liz Ireland, Three Bedrooms in Chelsea
      She'd never angsted so much about her head as she had in the past twenty-four hours. Why the hell hadn't she just left it alone?

[edit] References

  • Wikipedia-logo.png angst on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • angst” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
  • angst” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
  • angst” in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Adjective

angst

  1. afraid, anxious, alarmed

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angst c. (singular definite angsten, not used in plural form)

  1. fear, alarm, apprehension, dread
  2. anxiety
  3. angst

[edit] Dutch

[edit] Noun

angst m. (plural angsten, diminutive angstje, diminutive plural angstjes)

  1. fear, angst, anxiety

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[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Etymology

From Low German, related to anger.

[edit] Noun

angst m. (definite singular angsten; uncountable)

  1. (singulare tantum) angst

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