Usually means: Anxiety about existential fears, uncertainty.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. angst: Merriam-Webster
  2. angst: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. angst, angst: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. angst: Collins English Dictionary
  5. angst: Vocabulary.com
  6. Angst, angst: Wordnik
  7. angst: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. angst: Wiktionary
  9. angst: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. angst: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. angst: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. angst: Dictionary.com
  13. angst: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. angst: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Angst (American band), Angst (KMFDM album), Angst (Lacrimosa album), Angst (band), Angst (disambiguation), Angst (song), Angst (soundtrack), Angst (supermarket), Angst: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Angst: Rhymezone
  17. Angst (f), angst, angst (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. angst: FreeDictionary.org
  19. angst: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. angst: Foreign Words and Phrases
  21. angst: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. angst: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. angst: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. angst: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Angst: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. angst: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  2. angst: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the angst: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See angsting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Emotional turmoil; painful sadness.
noun:  A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
noun:  (chiefly fanfiction) Fiction focusing on characters experiencing strong emotions and conflicts with other characters.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To suffer angst; to fret.

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