It's maybe close to what people call dread or angst.
Nothing wrong with that – but Dylan seems to be going for dread and angst, in the serious, Romantic sense.
For too many minority New Yorkers, the sight of a passing police car brings a sense of dread and angst, the terrible feeling that they do not yet enjoy the full liberties the Constitution promises or the rights of redress that many New Yorkers take as a given.
I fill with dread and angst, my thoughts regressing to the negative: What if all my friends are busy this weekend?
14 15 Psychache, according to Shneidman, 16 17 is defined as an acute state of intense and intolerable psychological pain that encompasses shame, guilt, humiliation, loneliness, fear, angst, dread, anguish, etc.
You want to instill in your boss a feeling of deep angst and dread anywhere within talking distance of you.
He was accused of encouraging wannabe angst, "the dread of being fat weighing like an incubus" on the youth of the day.
"Any time I have a movie or play or book coming out, I am as full of angst and dread as to how it will be received as though I couldn't pay the rent if it didn't work out," he said.
Psychache is the hurt, anguish, or ache that takes hold of the mind, the pain of excessively felt shame, guilt, fear, anxiety, loneliness, angst and dread of growing old or of dying badly.
For a while there (as many of you could see; it was raw and in the open), I had no confidence, little hope, lots of numbness, rage, angst, and dread that my life would suck forever.
