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Angst vs Hate - What's the difference?

angst | hate |

Hate is a antonym of angst.



As nouns the difference between angst and hate

is that angst is emotional turmoil; painful sadness while hate is an object of hatred.

As verbs the difference between angst and hate

is that angst is to suffer angst; to fret while hate is to dislike intensely or greatly.

angst

English

Noun

(-)
  • Emotional turmoil; painful sadness.
  • * 1979 , Peter Hammill, Mirror images
  • 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.
  • * 2007 , Martyn Bone, Perspectives on Barry Hannah (page 3)
  • 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 .
  • A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
  • Derived terms

    * angst bunny, angstbunny * angsty

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To suffer angst; to fret.
  • * 2001 , Joseph P Natoli, Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture, 1996-1998
  • In the second scene, the camera switches to the father listening, angsting , dying inside, but saying nothing.
  • * 2006 , Liz Ireland, Three Bedrooms in Chelsea
  • 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

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    hate

    English

    Noun

  • An object of hatred.
  • One of my pet hates is traffic wardens.
  • Hatred.
  • He gave me a look filled with pure hate .
  • (Internet, colloquial) Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.
  • There was a lot of hate in the comments on my vlog about Justin Bieber from his fans.

    Verb

    (hat)
  • To dislike intensely or greatly.
  • I hate men who take advantage of women.
  • (slang) To dislike intensely due to envy.
  • Don't be hating my weave, girl, you're just jealous!

    Synonyms

    * abhor * despise * detest * loathe * See also

    Antonyms

    * love

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

  • liver (organ of the body)
  • References

    * Van den Berg, Rene (1991). "Preliminary Notes on the Cia-Cia Language," in Excursies in Celebes , pp. 305-324. ----