Angst

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  • noun. A feeling of anxiety or apprehension.
  • intransitive verb. To show or feel anxiety or apprehension.
  • abbreviation. angstrom
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
  • noun. More commonly, painful sadness or emotional turmoil, as teen angst.
  • verb. To suffer angst; to fret.
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  • noun. an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom
  • Word Usage
    "I'm pretty sure that very few people under the age of thirty-five remember what the word angst actually means, or know that "angsting" isn't a word, or that feeling and expressing angst is not a sign of weakness or something to be loathed and mocked."
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    anxiety  
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