different between agony vs angst

English

Etymology

14th century, via Old French [Term?] and Latin [Term?]; from Ancient Greek ?????? (ag?nía, “emulation, competition, struggle”), from ???? (ag?n, “contest”). Specifically of the struggle that precedes death (mortal agony) from the 1540s.

The sense of "extreme pain" from c. 1600.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ.??.ni?/

Noun

agony (countable and uncountable, plural agonies)

1. Extreme pain.
2. (biblical) The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
3. Violent contest or striving.
   • 1849, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Chapter 10

     The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations.

4. Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
5. The last struggle of life; death struggle.

Synonyms

• anguish, torment, throe, distress, pang, suffering
• See also Thesaurus:agony

Antonyms

• (extreme pain): ecstasy

Related terms

• agon
• agonal
• agonist, antagonist, protagonist
• agonistes
• agonize, agonise

Translations

Anagrams

• Goyan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Angst or Danish angst; attested since the 19th century in English translations of the works of Freud and 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; Dutch angst is cognate. Compare Swedish ångest.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?ng(k)sts, IPA^(key): /æ?(k)st/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): (see /æ/ raising) [e??(k)st]
• Rhymes: -æ?kst

Noun

angst (uncountable)

1. Emotional turmoil; painful sadness.
   • 2007, Martyn Bone, Perspectives on Barry Hannah (page 3)

     Harry's adolescence is theatrical and gaudy, and many of its key scenes have a lurid and camp quality that is appropriate to the exaggerated mood-shifting and self-dramatizing of teen angst.

2. A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

angst (third-person singular simple present angsts, present participle angsting, simple past and past participle angsted)

1. (informal, intransitive) To suffer angst; to fret.

References

• angst on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “angst”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• "angst" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• 'ganst, Gnats, Stang, Tangs, Tsang, gnast, gnat's, gnats, stang, tangs

Danish

Etymology

From Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz.

Adjective

angst

1. afraid, anxious, alarmed

Noun

angst c (singular definite angsten, not used in plural form)

1. fear, alarm, apprehension, dread
2. anxiety
3. angst

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch anxt, from Old Dutch *angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/
• Hyphenation: angst
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

angst m (plural angsten, diminutive angstje n)

1. fear, fright, anxiety

   Synonyms: schrik, vrees, vrucht

Derived terms

• angstaanjagend
• angsthaas
• angstig
• angstpsychose
• angststoornis
• bindingsangst
• faalangst
• vliegangst

Related terms

• eng

Descendants

• Afrikaans: angs

Anagrams

• stang

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German (compare German Angst).

Noun

angst m (definite singular angsten, uncountable)

1. angst, anxiety

Derived terms

References

“angst” in The Bokmål Dictionary.