Plural of angst; feelings of anxiety, dread, or existential worry, often about meaningful or philosophical matters.
From German 'Angst' meaning fear or anxiety, adopted into English especially through 20th-century existentialist philosophy and literature. The plural form is less common but used to describe multiple instances or types of anxiety.
Existentialist philosophers like Kierkegaard made 'angst' famous as the special anxiety humans feel about freedom and meaninglessness—it's deeper than fear because there's no specific thing causing it, just existence itself.
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