Angst vs Restlessness - What's the difference?
angst | restlessness |
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
The state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, at peace or comfortable.
As nouns the difference between angst and restlessness
is that angst is fear while restlessness is the state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, at peace or comfortable.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
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* * * * ----restlessness
English
(wikipedia restlessness)Noun
(-)- She sat and fidgeted out of restlessness as she waited.