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Angst
Angst
See also: angst
German
Noun
Angst f (genitive Angst, plural Ängste)
Declension
Declension of Angst
Usage notes
- A distinction may be made (or may formerly have been made) between Angst meaning “fear as an emotional condition” and Furcht meaning “fear as the reasonable reaction to a threat”.
- In contemporary German, the two words are widely treated as synonyms with Angst being preferred over Furcht.
- The exception to this is that Furcht can also express a respectful fear, which Angst cannot. For example, Furcht vor dem Vater ("fear of one's father") may be an exceeding amount of respect, whereas Angst vor dem Vater clearly implies parental misconduct.
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See also: Angst
English
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.
- 1979, Peter Hammill, Mirror images
- A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
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Translations
emotional turmoil
feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension
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Verb
angst (third-person singular simple present angsts, present participle angsting, simple past and past participle angsted)
- (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 **** hadn't she just left it alone?
- 2001, Joseph P Natoli, Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture, 1996-1998
References
- angst on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “angst” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
- "angst" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
- ↑ “angst” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
- ↑ “angst” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- ↑ Online Etymology Dictionary, "angst"
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Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑŋst
Etymology
From Old Dutch *angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz. Related to Dutch eng (“narrow; scary”). Cognate with German Angst.
Noun
angst m (plural angsten, diminutive angstje n)
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German (compare German Angst).
Noun
angst m (definite singular angsten, uncountable)
- (singular only) angst
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