Angst Definition
A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
(informal) To suffer angst; to fret.
Origin of Angst
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From the German word Angst or the Danish word angst; attested since the 19th century in English translations of the works of Freud and Søren Kierkegaard. (George Eliot used the phrase complete with definite article: "die Angst".) Initially capitalized (as in German), 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.
From Wiktionary
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German from Middle High German angest from Old High German angust angh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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