angst

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Pronunciation

• enPR: ăng(k)sts, IPA: /æŋ(k)st/
  • (GA, CA) IPA: [eɪŋ(k)st]

Noun

angst (uncountable)

1. Emotional turmoil; painful sadness.
   • 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.

Translations

• French: angoisse
• Portuguese: angústia
• Russian: тоска́

Translations

• French: angoisse existentielle
• German: Angst
• Italian: paturnie
• Portuguese: angústia, aflição
• Russian: трево́га
• Spanish: pánico, nerviosismo

Verb

angst (angsts, present participle angsting; past and past participle angsted)

1. (informal, intransitive) To suffer angst; to fret.

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