angstingn.
/ˈaŋ(k)stɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈæŋ(k)stɪŋ/, /ˈɑŋ(k)stɪŋ/ The action of angst v.; an instance of this.
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1991 End of Alphabet Terman Reviews in rec.arts.comics (Usenet newsgroup) 26 July No fighting,..very little angsting, or macho posturing.
2009 Times 3 Jan. 61/2 When you go up to the North West of England by car, there's the big left-or-right question around Birmingham. No such angsting for the buses.
2014 Wire May 16/1 Strangely, much current angsting over the demise of music treats the thing in your hands and the thing in your head as consequences rather than simultaneous phenomena.
2018 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 21 Apr. Early minutes which recorded the angstings over coming up with the right name.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
angstingadj.
/ˈaŋ(k)stɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈæŋ(k)stɪŋ/, /ˈɑŋ(k)stɪŋ/ That frets or agonizes; characterized by fretting.
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1989 Washington Post 3 Mar. (Weekend section) 33/4 The perfect cast includes an angsting Allen..and the marvelous Mae Questel (the voice of the original Betty Boop and Olive Oyl) as Woody's Ur-Mama.
1995 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 14 Oct. 6 [The book] 1988 is dismissed as ‘another’ young man's angsting book by reviewers caught up in nostalgia and seemingly deaf to the stylistic magic of this book.
2004 Vancouver Province (Nexis) 8 June b10 Radcliffe as an angsting 13-year-old Harry.
2017 New York Times (Nexis) 23 July (Real Estate section) 6 I read it so many times in my angsting 20s... The book gave me my mantra, which was ‘Don't be down the middle’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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