Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1940s
Angst
from Angst
- Meaning
- Anxiety, dread — particularly existential.
- Source word
- Angst
- Route into English
- Kierkegaard and Heidegger's philosophical use entered English via 20th-c. existentialism; pop-culture "teen angst" 1980s.
- Arrived
- 1940s
English borrows.
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