The phrase "angst level" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the intensity or degree of anxiety, worry, or emotional turmoil someone is experiencing.
Example: "After hearing the news, my angst level skyrocketed, and I couldn't focus on anything else."
Alternatives: "anxiety level" or "stress level".
The life of a small business CEO certainly isn't worry-free, but the angst level surely is far less than searching.
"PCE inflation continues to run below the Federal Reserve's longer-run target of 2%, which could raise the market's angst level about the Fed being on course to make a policy mistake with further tightening action," Briefing.com said.
And as the days drew closer to the sequestration deadline, the angst level rose inside the West Wing.
It also gives the audience a refreshing break from some of the high level angst of the end of the season, allowing Peter and Olivia to act out a properly romantic storyline while their characters in the 'real' world have been torn apart.
Just as often it gave way to Mahler-level angst, which doesn't suit it and just sounds weird.
There's also a smattering of low-level angst that might appeal to the Coldplay crowd: ' I'm drinking spirits in the hopes that I will find myself one,' she sings in 'Party'.
Which is to say that, after the low-level angst of an afternoon of awkward relatives, arguments over how to carve the turkey et al, who isn't secretly yearning to experience the kind of ludicrously, liberatingly awful day which once resulted in Peggy Mitchell taking a baseball bat to the Queen Vic? No? OK, just me then.
I live with low-level angst that readily accelerates into something more.
Hopelessness and lack of confidence, spending dominating policymaking conversations, angst at all levels of government, and a public disgusted, disconnected and disappointed -- descriptors of our current economic situation?
What's surprising is the level of angst around Georgetown, given that the program reached the Final Four two years ago.
