Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Emotional turmoil; painful sadness; anguish. · A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety. · Fiction focusing on characters experiencing strong emotions and conflicts with other characters.
To suffer angst; to fret.
Borrowed from German Angst or Danish angst; attested since the 19th century in English translations of the works of Søren Kierkegaard. Initially capitalized (as in German and contemporaneous Danish), the term first began to be written with a lowercase "a" around 1940–44. The German and Danish terms both derive from Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz; related to anguish, Dutch angst, Swedish ångest.
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