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Sturm und Drang    Audio Help   [shtoorm oont drahng] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a style or movement of German literature of the latter half of the 18th century: characterized chiefly by impetuosity of manner, exaltation of individual sensibility and intuitive perception, opposition to established forms of society and thought, and extreme nationalism.
2.tumult; turmoil; upheaval.
[Origin: < G: lit., storm and stress]
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Sturm und Drang    Audio Help   (shtŏŏrm' ŏŏnt dräng')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Turmoil; ferment: "A book's historical roots represent another barrier; so does the personal Sturm und Drang of the author" (Robert Kanigel).
  2. A late-18th-century German romantic literary movement whose works typically depicted the struggles of a highly emotional individual against conventional society.


[German, storm and stress, after Sturm und Drang, a drama by Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752-1831).]

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Sturm und Drang 
1844, lit. "storm and stress," late 18c. Ger. romanticism period, is taken from the title of a 1776 romantic drama by Ger. poet Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752-1831), who gave it this name at the suggestion of Christoph Kauffmann.

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sturm und drang

noun
a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence" [syn: turbulence] 

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