Angst is the fear of our own incapacity for peace.
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Angst
//æŋ(k)st//
Synonyms for "angst" (86 found)
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Related words (43)
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13 entriesis a
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9 entriesTranslations
41 translations across 19 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- ankth noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Catalan
1 entries- angoixa noun (emotional turmoil)
Czech
1 entries- úzkost noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Danish
2 entries- angst noun (emotional turmoil)
- angst noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Dutch
1 entries- angst noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Esperanto
2 entries- angoro noun (emotional turmoil)
- angoro noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Finnish
4 entries- ahdistus noun (emotional turmoil)
- ahdistus noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
- angsti noun (emotional turmoil)
- angsti noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
French
2 entries- angoisse noun (emotional turmoil)
- angoisse existentielle noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Galician
2 entries- anguria noun (emotional turmoil)
- anguria noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
German
2 entries- Angst noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
- Aufgewühltheit noun (emotional turmoil)
Italian
1 entries- paturnie noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- angst noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- angest noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
- angst noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Portuguese
3 entries- aflição noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
- angústia noun (emotional turmoil)
- angústia noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Romanian
1 entries- angoasă noun (emotional turmoil)
Russian
4 entries- беспоко́йство noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
- грусть noun (emotional turmoil)
- тоска́ noun (emotional turmoil)
- трево́га noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- anksióznōst noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
- nespokojstvo noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
- nȅmīr noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
- анксио́зно̄ст noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Swedish
2 entries- Angst noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
- ångest noun (feeling of acute anxiety or apprehension)
Turkish
1 entries- keder noun (emotional turmoil)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Teenage angst is a part of life.
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Yanni was fourteen and was in the throes of teenage angst.
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Tom's anger and angst is slowly destroying him.
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