angst

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Etymology [edit]

From the German word Angst or the Danish word angst; attested since the 19th century in English translations of the works of Freud and Søren Kierkegaard. (George Eliot used the phrase complete with definite article: "die Angst".) Initially capitalized (as in German), the term first began to be written with a lowercase "a" around 1940–44.[1][2][3] The German and Danish terms both derive from Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust, from Proto-Indo-European *angh-; Dutch angst is cognate.

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Noun [edit]

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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Verb [edit]

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?

References [edit]

  • 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 WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.
  1. ^ angst” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
  2. ^ angst” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
  3. ^ Online Etymology Dictionary, "angst"

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Danish [edit]

Adjective [edit]

angst

  1. afraid, anxious, alarmed

Noun [edit]

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

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

Dutch [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Dutch *angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz.

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Noun [edit]

angst m (plural angsten, diminutive angstje)

  1. fear, angst, anxiety

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Norwegian Bokmål [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Middle Low German (compare German Angst).

Noun [edit]

angst m (definite singular angsten; uncountable)

  1. (singular only) angst

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