What does angst mean?
: a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity teenage angst.
What is the pronunciation of angst?
Karen called to ask about the pronunciation of “angst”; according to Karen, she and everyone she knows says [æŋst], but a “pedantic friend” of hers corrected her and said: “actually, it’s [ɑːŋst]”. Furthermore, Karen “looked in the dictionary and indeed it says [ɑːŋst]”.
Is angst a real word?
Angst means fear or anxiety (anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and the words anxious and anxiety are of similar origin). The dictionary definition for angst is a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity.