angsting
Brooding with intensity
Angsting is indulging in or expressing intense anxiety, emotional turmoil, or brooding—often with a sense of dramatic excess.
The word comes from teenage and fan-fiction culture, where characters or people engage in prolonged emotional distress: She spent the whole episode angsting over whether to tell him the truth.
Sometimes used dismissively to suggest the worry is overwrought or self-indulgent.
Prolonged, repetitive thinking
- indecisionFailure to decide
- self-doubtUncertainty about oneself
- obsessingThinking about compulsively
- spiralingCurving in widening circles
catastrophizing · second-guessing · fixation · what-ifs · rehashing · overanalyzing · perseverating · introspection
Troubled mental state
- frettingAnxious rumination or surface wear
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
distress · turmoil · agitation · restlessness · trepidation · panic · dread · overwhelm
Lack of significance
- nihilismRejection of objective meaning
- absurdismPhilosophy embracing existence's irrationality
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- voidWithout legal effect
futility · despair · alienation · ennui · solitude · mortality · purposelessness · nothingness
rumination
Prolonged, repetitive thinking
- indecisionFailure to decide
- self-doubtUncertainty about oneself
- obsessingThinking about compulsively
spiraling · catastrophizing · second-guessing · fixation · what-ifs · rehashing · overanalyzing · perseverating · introspection · perfectionism
worry
Troubled mental state
- frettingAnxious rumination or surface wear
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
- uneaseMild persistent worry
apprehension · distress · turmoil · agitation · restlessness · trepidation · panic · dread · overwhelm · tension
meaninglessness
Lack of significance
- nihilismRejection of objective meaning
- absurdismPhilosophy embracing existence's irrationality
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
void · futility · despair · alienation · ennui · solitude · mortality · purposelessness · nothingness · Kierkegaard
teenager
Person aged thirteen-nineteen
insecurity · crushes · prom · drama · hormones · moodiness · diary · brooding · melodrama · heartbreak
angstingserenity
Undisturbed mental quietude
tranquility · relaxing · chilling · contentment · equanimity
angstingtaking action
Initiating purposeful effort
letting go · moving on · problem-solving · accepting · coping
angstingaccepting
Willing to receive
letting go · surrendering · making peace · trusting · flowing
anxiety, anxious, angst, anxiously, anxieties, angsts, angsty