ANGST
What does "ANGST" mean?
A feeling of deep anxiety or dread, often without a specific cause.
Meanings
- A profound, often unfocused, sense of anxiety, dread, or insecurity. Adolescent angst poured out of every page of his diary.
- In existentialist thought, the dread that arises from confronting human freedom and mortality. Kierkegaard located angst at the dizzying edge of total freedom. technical
Did you know?
- English borrowed 'angst' in the 1940s largely through translations of Freud and Kierkegaard, importing a whole flavour of dread that 'anxiety' did not quite carry.
Word origin
From German and Danish 'Angst', meaning anxiety or anguish, ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root for tightness or constriction shared with Latin 'angere', to choke.
Remember it
ANGST is ANGER and aghaST squeezed into one tight, dread-filled syllable.
A little poem
No tiger in the dark, no debt, no name-
just the long hallway of an open door,
and the cold knowing you must choose, all the same.
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What it teaches
Dread without a cause is freedom mistaken for danger; name the choice and the fog often lifts.
Quick facts
What does ANGST mean?
A feeling of deep anxiety or dread, often without a specific cause.
Is ANGST a valid word?
Yes — ANGST is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ANGST?
ANGST has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does ANGST come from?
From German and Danish 'Angst', meaning anxiety or anguish, ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root for tightness or constriction shared with Latin 'angere', to choke.
What can ANGST teach us?
Dread without a cause is freedom mistaken for danger; name the choice and the fog often lifts.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.