angst
a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.
Origin of angst
1Other words from angst
- angsty, adjective, angst·i·er, angst·i·est.
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How to use angst in a sentence
The games don’t save us, but they allow for a release of all the angst and pressure.
This odd Super Bowl will bring us together for a day. Let’s not take that for granted. | Jerry Brewer | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostIt is an exceptionally vulnerable stage of life anyway, and this is a generation that has grown up with school-shooter drills and built-in angst about the long-term effects of climate change.
Dear Struggling Parents, It's Not Just You. This Is Hard | Susanna Schrobsdorff | January 31, 2021 | TimeTwelve years after conservatives condemned a Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing radicalization, its conclusion — that the Internet and economic angst were making it easier for extremists to recruit — looks prescient.
The Trailer: How Democrats plan to fight domestic terror | David Weigel | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostA buildup of angst against ad trackers and app snooping led to major changes in hardware and software alike.
This covid-19 shutdown is the small respite that everyone needed, the pass that is going to prevent an entire subcategory of familial angst in 2020.
Will covid-19 make this the Turkey Day without political fights? | Petula Dvorak | November 23, 2020 | Washington Post
Heightening his angst, Warren pines for precocious Jessica (Gevinson).
Michael Cera Brings ‘This Is Our Youth’ to Broadway After 18 Years | Tom Teodorczuk | September 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAll the paranoia over shape, all the body angst, previously thought as reserved for women, is coming our way, guys.
Prince Fielder’s Demi Moore Moment: World Loses It Over Athlete Without Six-Pack | Tim Teeman | July 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBreaking up is hard to do—especially for your friends who have to listen to countless hours of your post-relationship angst.
Even before that ode to Jewish angst and masturbation hit the bookstores in 1969, Roth was a Yaddo veteran.
And I admit I look back on my teenage self and think a lot of my angst sounds like an Onion article.
An Ode to Angry Asians: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Suey Park | Arthur Chu | April 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHer situation is a very difficult one; and "die angst," she says, often brings on a pain at her heart.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. I (of 3) | George EliotAs used in the early eighteenth century, the term "hyp" was perhaps not far from what our century has learned to call angst.
Hypochondriasis | John Hill
British Dictionary definitions for angst
/ (æŋst, German aŋst) /
an acute but nonspecific sense of anxiety or remorse
(in Existentialist philosophy) the dread caused by man's awareness that his future is not determined but must be freely chosen
Origin of angst
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for angst
[ (ahngkst) ]
A kind of fear or anxiety; Angst is German for “fear.” It is usually applied to a deep and essentially philosophical anxiety about the world in general or personal freedom. (See existentialism.)
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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