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angst
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)
- 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.
- 2007, Martyn Bone, Perspectives on Barry Hannah (page 3)
- 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)
- (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
- afraid, anxious, alarmed
Noun
angst c (singular definite angsten, not used in plural form)
- fear, alarm, apprehension, dread
- anxiety
- 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)
- 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)
- angst, anxiety
Derived terms
References
“angst” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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distress
English
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiare, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringere (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringere (“to draw tight, strain”).
The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??st??s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Noun
distress (countable and uncountable, plural distresses)
- (Cause of) discomfort.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:distress.
- Serious danger.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:distress.
- (medicine) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
- (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
- (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
- If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle.
- The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for.
Derived terms
- distress signal
Antonyms
- (maladaptive stress): eustress
Related terms
- distrain
- district
Translations
Verb
distress (third-person singular simple present distresses, present participle distressing, simple past and past participle distressed)
- To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
- Synonyms: anguish, harrow, trouble, vex, torment, tantalize, tantalise, martyr
- (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
- Synonym: distrain
- To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
- Synonyms: age, antique, patinate
Translations
Further reading
- distress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- distress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- distress at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- disserts
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