"angst" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /æŋ(k)st/ Audio: en-au-angst.ogg [Australia], en-us-angst.ogg [Northern-US]
enPR: ăng(k)st Rhymes: -æŋkst Etymology: Borrowed 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; Dutch angst is cognate. Compare Swedish ångest. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂enǵʰ-}}, {{bor|en|de|Angst}} German Angst, {{bor|en|da|angst}} Danish angst, {{der|en|gmh|angest}} Middle High German angest, {{der|en|goh|angust}} Old High German angust, {{der|en|gem-pro|*angustiz}} Proto-Germanic *angustiz, {{cog|nl|angst}} Dutch angst, {{cog|sv|ångest}} Swedish ångest Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} angst (uncountable)
  1. Emotional turmoil; painful sadness. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions Translations (emotional turmoil): angoixa [feminine] (Catalan), angst [common-gender] (Danish), angoro (Esperanto), ahdistus (Finnish), angsti (Finnish), elämäntuska (Finnish), angoisse [feminine] (French), anguria [feminine] (Galician), angústia [feminine] (Portuguese), angoasă [feminine] (Romanian), тоска́ (toská) [feminine] (Russian), грусть (grustʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-angst-en-noun-w9zaQvpw Disambiguation of Emotions: 60 40 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 29 16 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 71 21 8 Disambiguation of 'emotional turmoil': 97 3
  2. A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety. Tags: uncountable Translations (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension): angst [common-gender] (Danish), angst (Dutch), angoro (Esperanto), ahdistus (Finnish), angsti (Finnish), elämäntuska (Finnish), angoisse existentielle [feminine] (French), anguria [feminine] (Galician), Angst [feminine] (German), paturnie [feminine, plural] (Italian), angst [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), angst [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), angest [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), angústia [feminine] (Portuguese), aflição [feminine] (Portuguese), трево́га (trevóga) [feminine] (Russian), беспоко́йство (bespokójstvo) [neuter] (Russian), не̏мӣр [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), неспокојство [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), анксио́зно̄ст [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nȅmīr [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), nespokojstvo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), anksióznōst [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pánico [masculine] (Spanish), nerviosismo [masculine] (Spanish), ångest [common-gender] (Swedish), Angst (note: as a philosophical and psychological term) (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-angst-en-noun-DHRcgtLk Disambiguation of 'feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension': 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb

IPA: /æŋ(k)st/ Audio: en-au-angst.ogg [Australia], en-us-angst.ogg [Northern-US] Forms: angsts [present, singular, third-person], angsting [participle, present], angsted [participle, past], angsted [past]
enPR: ăng(k)st Rhymes: -æŋkst Etymology: Borrowed 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; Dutch angst is cognate. Compare Swedish ångest. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂enǵʰ-}}, {{bor|en|de|Angst}} German Angst, {{bor|en|da|angst}} Danish angst, {{der|en|gmh|angest}} Middle High German angest, {{der|en|goh|angust}} Old High German angust, {{der|en|gem-pro|*angustiz}} Proto-Germanic *angustiz, {{cog|nl|angst}} Dutch angst, {{cog|sv|ångest}} Swedish ångest Head templates: {{en-verb}} angst (third-person singular simple present angsts, present participle angsting, simple past and past participle angsted)
  1. (informal, intransitive) To suffer angst; to fret. Tags: informal, intransitive
    Sense id: en-angst-en-verb-qkUa37VJ

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.