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angst

  [ahngkst]
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–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
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Cultural Dictionary

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.)

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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

angst 2
abbr.
angstrom

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