angst
Emotional turmoil; painful sadness; anguishEmotional turmoil; painful sadness; anguish.
» Teenage angst is a part of life.
Meaning
3 senses(uncountable)Emotional turmoil; painful sadness; anguish.
Aufgewühltheit
тоска́toská, грустьgrustʹ
(uncountable)A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
Angst
трево́гаtrevóga, беспоко́йствоbespokójstvo
an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom
(uncountable)Fiction focusing on characters experiencing strong emotions and conflicts with other characters.
Examples
7 sentencesTeenage angst is a part of life.
Don't angst out about something being hard.
Tom's anger and angst is slowly destroying him.
Yanni was fourteen and was in the throes of teenage angst.
Angst is the fear of our own incapacity for peace.
deAngst ist die Furcht vor unserer eigenen Unfähigkeit zum Frieden.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
Borrowed from German Angst or Danish angst; attested since the 19th century in English traBorrowed from German Angst or Danish angst; attested since the 19th century in English translations of the works of Søren Kierkegaard. Initially capitalized (as in German and contemporaneous Danish), the term first began to be written with a lowercase "a" around 1940–44. The German and Danish terms both derive from Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz; related to anguish, Dutch angst, Swedish ångest.
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Word family
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable