German

Noun

Angst f ‎(genitive Angst, plural Ängste)

1. angst
2. fear

Declension

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.

Derived terms

• Angsthase
• ängstlich

Related terms

• Furcht
• Schreck

English

Noun

angst ‎(uncountable)

1. 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.

2. A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.

Derived terms

Translations

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 **** 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 WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

1. ↑ “angst” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
2. ↑ “angst” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
3. ↑ Online Etymology Dictionary, "angst"

Anagrams

• 'ganst
• gnats
• stang
• tangs

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

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)

1. fear, angst, anxiety

Synonyms

• (fear): schrik, vrees, vrucht

Derived terms

• faalangst

Related terms

• angsthaas
• angstig
• angstpsychose

Anagrams

• stang

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German (compare German Angst).

Noun

angst m ‎(definite singular angsten, uncountable)

1. (singular only) angst

Derived terms

References

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