Emotional turmoil; painful sadness; anguish.
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.
A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
Fiction focusing on characters experiencing strong emotions and conflicts with other characters.
General: a story with a general theme. It is neither romance or angst but may incorporate elements of all other genres.
Borrowed from German Angst or Danish angst; attested since the 19th century in English translations of the works of Søren Kierkegaard. Initially capitalized (as in German and contemporaneous Danish), ...
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