ANGST | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of angst in English

(Definition of angst from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of angst from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of angst

angst
We can see, however, that certain conditions can prevent art from reaching full maturity and keep artists in a perpetual stage of adolescent angst.
Because of the angst, ambiguity, and doubt involved, these dilemmas for parents cannot be viewed as an opportunity to exercise personal values and individual choice.
One can only imagine the angst suffered by the author.
Slowly, reluctantly it has acceded to these demands, albeit at the expense of considerable internal angst and turmoil.
But that does not contradict his role as primarily being to articulate the angst, pain, and glory of his cultural group.
Slowly, reluctantly, it has acceded to these demands, albeit at the expense of considerable internal angst and turmoil.
The following generations would tend to cast it into the wastebasket of the previous generation's angst.
It does, however, feature angst as an aspect of legal life.
From this, among other things, come the angst and black humour of many of her pieces.
I observed children entering the courtyard and saw their faces transform from angst to laughter.
The resulting overtones embody the angst of the song just as lyrics and the rhythm section's steady pulse reinforce a woman's frustration with love's resistance to control.
But electronic musicians destabilise these notions by exposing the fluidity of boundaries between human- and machine-generated music, as well as the cultural angst over the dissolution of these boundaries.
W hen hope clashes with reality and causes angst, is it better to jettison hope, or reality?
In a form of musical end-of-the millennium angst, the more recent fascination with alien themes is often informed by a postmodern erosion of historical narratives of progress.
There was no concealing either the angst felt by many such workers whose whole working lives had been geared to the productive rhythms of the sugar mill.
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Translations of angst

in Chinese (Traditional)
(尤指對私人問題的)焦慮,煩憂…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(尤指对私人问题的)焦虑,烦忧…
in Spanish
angustia, Angustia…
in Portuguese
angústia…
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aşırı mutsuzluk ve endişe, aşırı endişe…
angoisse, peur…
angstgevoel…
silný pocit úzkosti…
angst…
cemas…
ความเป็นห่วง, ความกังวล…
cảm giác lo lắng…
frustracja, niepokój…
ångest…
kebimbangan…
die Angst…
angst…
тривога…
тоска…
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