angst

Etymology
Borrowed from or ; attested since the 19th century in English translations of the works of. 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, from , from ; 🇨🇬 is cognate. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Emotional turmoil; painful sadness.
 * 2) A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
 * 1) A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
 * 1) A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , elämäntuska
 * French:
 * Galician: anguria
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , elämäntuska
 * French: angoisse existentielle
 * Galician: anguria
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: angst, angest
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: не̏мӣр, неспокојство, анксио́зно̄ст
 * Roman:, nespokojstvo,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To suffer angst; to fret.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) afraid, anxious, alarmed

Noun

 * 1) fear, anxiety, alarm, apprehension, dread

Etymology
From, from , from , an abstract noun derived from the adjective. Similar abstract noun derivations from an adjective are and. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See also.

Noun

 * 1) fear, fright, anxiety

Etymology
From (compare 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * , anxiety

Etymology
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