ANGUISH

Anguish

Anguish is a term used in philosophy, often as a translation from the Latin for angst. It is a paramount feature of existentialist philosophy, in which anguish is often understood as the experience of an utterly free being in a world with zero absolutes . In the theology of Kierkegaard, it refers to a being with total free will who is in a constant state of spiritual fear that his freedom will lead him to fall short of the standards that God has laid out for him.

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anguish

Noun

  1. Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

Verb

  1. To suffer pain.
  2. To cause to suffer pain.


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