angst

See also Angst

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Canada, UK) IPA: /æŋkst/, SAMPA: /{Nkst/

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• Rhymes: -æŋkst

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• angst bunny, angstbunny
• angsty
• teen angst

Translations

• Italian: paturnie (it) f. pl.

Verb

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

• 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 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

Anagrams

• 'ganst
• gnats
• stang
• tangs

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Danish

Adjective

angst

1. afraid, anxious, alarmed

Noun

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

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

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑŋst

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Noun

angst m. (plural angsten, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. fear, angst, anxiety

Synonyms

• schrik
• vrees

Derived terms

• faalangst

Related terms

• angsthaas
• angstig
• angstpsychose

Anagrams

• stang

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Low German, related to anger.

Noun

angst m. (definite singular angsten; uncountable)

1. (singular only) angst

Derived terms

• angstbiter
• angstskrik
• dødsangst
• kastrasjonsa
• plassangst
• prestasjonsangst
• seksualangst

References

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