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angst
(redirected from Existential despair)

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angst
(in Existentialist philosophy) the dread caused by man's awareness that his future is not determined but must be freely chosen


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Ever the actor, he moves in and out of various characters in some songs, sometimes with hard-boiled hilarity and, in other instances, deep in existential despair over a spiritual earthquake zone that even the ``Hotel California'' Eagles might deem too darkly shattering.
By that time, my intimate relations with men and my unfulfilled yearnings for women had thrown me into an existential despair.
It also experienced the concomitant disadvantages of a dislocation of values, internecine warfare and random violence, political corruption and revolution, ethnic and racial tensions, new disease, and existential despair.
 
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