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angst

[ahngkst]
–noun, plural äng⋅ste [engk-stuh] .
a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.

Origin:
1840–50; < G Angst fear, anxiety, OHG angust (c. MLG angest, MD anxt), equiv. to ang- (akin to eng narrow, constricted) + -st abstract nominal suffix, perh. a conglomerate of a suffix *-os- + *-ti- suffix forming abstracts
angst 1   (ängkst)   
n.  A feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression.

[German, from Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust; see angh- in Indo-European roots.]
angst 2  
abbr.  angstrom
ang·strom or ång·strom   (āng'strəm)   
n.   Abbr. A or Å or angst
A unit of length equal to one hundred-millionth (10-8) of a centimeter, used especially to specify radiation wavelengths. Also called angstrom unit. See Table at measurement.

[After Anders Jonas Ångström.]

angst [(ahngkst)]

A kind of fear or anxiety; Angst is German for “fear.” It is usually applied to a deep and essentially philosophical anxiety about the world in general or personal freedom. (See existentialism.)

Language Translation for : angst
Spanish: agonía,
German: die Qual,
Japanese: もだえ, 苦しみ

angst 
1944, from Ger. Angst "neurotic fear, anxiety, guilt, remorse" from O.H.G. angust, from the root of anger (q.v.). George Eliot used it (in Ger.) in 1849, and it was popularized in Eng. by translation of Freud's work, but as a foreign word until 1940s. O.E. had a cognate word, angsumnes "anxiety," but it died out.

angst 1 (ängkst)
n.
A feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression.

angst 2
abbr.
angstrom

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