angst
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from German Angst or Danish angst; attested since the 19th century in English translations of the works of Freud and Søren Kierkegaard. Initially capitalized (as in German and contemporaneous Danish), 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-Germanic *angustiz; Dutch angst is cognate. Compare Swedish ångest.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ăng(k)sts, IPA(key): /æŋ(k)st/
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Noun
angst (uncountable)
- Emotional turmoil; painful sadness.
- 1979, Peter Hammill, Mirror images:
- I've begun to regret that we'd ever met / Between the dimensions. / It gets such a strain to pretend that the change / Is anything but cheap. / With your infant pique and your angst pretensions / Sometimes you act like such a creep.
- 2007, Martyn Bone, Perspectives on Barry Hannah (page 3)
- Harry's adolescence is theatrical and gaudy, and many of its key scenes have a lurid and camp quality that is appropriate to the exaggerated mood-shifting and self-dramatizing of teen angst.
- A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
angst (third-person singular simple present angsts, present participle angsting, simple past and past participle angsted)
- (informal, intransitive) 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, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- "angst" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
- ^ “angst”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “angst”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “angst”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz.
Adjective
angst
Noun
angst c (singular definite angsten, not used in plural form)
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch anxt, from Old Dutch *angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz. Related to Dutch eng (“narrow; scary”). Cognate with German German Angst.
Pronunciation
Noun
angst m (plural angsten, diminutive angstje n)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- angstaanjagend (via the common construction angst aanjagen, "to frighten")
- angsthaas
- angstig
- angstpsychose
- angststoornis
- faalangst
- vliegangst
Descendants
- Afrikaans: angs
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German (compare German Angst).
Noun
angst m (definite singular angsten, uncountable)
Derived terms
References
“angst” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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