Other forms: angers
Anger is the hot feeling that rises when something is deeply unfair. Feel real anger.
It is quick to arrive and slow to leave, and it lies about what caused it. Anger is often fear or hurt wearing something louder, which is why it surprises the person feeling it.
1nounangerThe hot feeling that rises when something is deeply unfair.
“The anger lasted three days and the cause took nine years.”
anger is a feeling.
From Old Norse angr, grief and affliction, and beyond it a root meaning narrow or constricted. The oldest sense of anger is the feeling of being squeezed.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂enǵʰ- — narrow, tied together
Proto-Germanic
*angazaz — grief, sorrow
Old Norse
angr
Middle English
anger — grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath
English, today
anger
Built from
From Middle English anger (“grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath”), from Old Norse angr, ǫngr (“affliction, sorrow”) (compare Old Norse ang, ǫng (“troubled”)), from Proto-Germanic angazaz (“grief, sorrow”), from Proto-Indo-European h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow, tied together”). Cognate with Danish anger (“regret, remorse”), Norwegian Bokmål anger (“regret, remorse”), Swedish ånger (“regret”), Icelandic angur (“trouble”), Old English ange, enge (“narrow, close, straitened, constrained, confined, vexed, troubled, sorrowful, anxious, oppressive, severe, painful, cruel”), German Angst (“anxiety, anguish, fear”), Latin angō (“squeeze, choke, vex”), angor (“strangulation; anguish, torment”) (whence the English doublet a doublet of angor), Albanian ang (“fear, anxiety, pain, nightmare”), ae 𐬄𐬰𐬀𐬵 (“strangulation; distress”), Ancient Greek ἄγχω (“to squeeze, strangle”), Sanskrit अंहस्, अंहु (“anxiety, distress, affliction”) literally “narrowness”. Also compare with English anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perhaps to awe and ugly. The word seems to have originally meant “to choke, squeeze”. The verb is from Middle English angren, angeren, from Old Norse angra. Compare with Icelandic angra, Norwegian Nynorsk angra, Norwegian Bokmål angre, Swedish ångra, Danish angre.
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