Angst vs Anguish - What's the difference?
angst | anguish |
Emotional turmoil; painful sadness.
* 1979 , Peter Hammill, Mirror images
* 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.
(informal) To suffer angst; to fret.
* 2001 , Joseph P Natoli, Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture, 1996-1998
* 2006 , Liz Ireland, Three Bedrooms in Chelsea
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
* Bible, Exodus vi. 9
* Latimer
* 1889 , :
To suffer pain.
* (rfdate) 1900s , Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song , traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
To cause to suffer pain.
Anguish is a related term of angst.
As nouns the difference between angst and anguish
is that angst is emotional turmoil; painful sadness while anguish is extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.As verbs the difference between angst and anguish
is that angst is to suffer angst; to fret while anguish is to suffer pain.angst
English
Noun
(-)- I've begun to regret that we'd ever met / Between the dimensions. / It gets such a strain to pretend that the change / Is anything but cheap. / With your infant pique and your angst pretensions / Sometimes you act like such a creep.
- 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 .
Derived terms
* angst bunny, angstbunny * angstyVerb
(en verb)- In the second scene, the camera switches to the father listening, angsting , dying inside, but saying nothing.
- She'd never angsted so much about her head as she had in the past twenty-four hours. Why the hell hadn't she just left it alone?
References
* (angst) * *Anagrams
* * * * ----anguish
English
Noun
- But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- Ye miserable people, you must go to God in anguishes , and make your prayer to him.
- A terrible scream—a prolonged yell of horror and anguish —burst out of the silence of the moor. That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.
Synonyms
* agony, calvary, cross, pang, torture, torment * See also:Verb
(es)- We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish , it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.