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10 Language-to-English DictionariesSturm und Drang
Pronunciation / Transliteration: sturm und drang
"Su adolescencia estuvo llena de sturm und drang."
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A turbulent period of emotional intensity, conflict, or upheaval.
"The young artist's early years were characterized by constant sturm und drang before he found his creative focus." - 2
A late 18th-century German literary movement characterized by the expression of emotional unrest and rebellious individualism.
"Goethe's early masterpiece 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' is a defining text of the Sturm und Drang movement."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Borrowed directly from German, meaning literally 'Storm and Stress'. It originally derived as the title of a 1776 play by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, which gave its name to a proto-Romantic literary and musical movement in late 18th-century Germany that emphasized subjective individualism and extreme emotional heights. Over time, the term broadened in English to denote any state of turbulent emotional upheaval, turmoil, or intense conflict.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Sturm und Drang" is said worldwide
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Sturm und Drang
Transliteration: sturm un drang
"Cette période de sturm und drang a marqué sa jeunesse."
Sturm und Drang
Transliteration: stʊʁm ʊnt dʁaŋ
"Der Sturm und Drang war eine Epoche der deutschen Literatur."
Sturm und Drang
Transliteration: sturm und drang
"Il romanzo riflette il tipico spirito dello Sturm und Drang."
Sturm und Drang
Transliteration: sturm und drang
"Su adolescencia estuvo llena de sturm und drang."
Sturm und Drang
Transliteration: sturm und drang
"O movimento Sturm und Drang valorizava a emoção extrema."
उथल-पुथल
Transliteration: uthal-puthal
"उसके जीवन का वह दौर भारी उथल-पुथल से भरा था।"
狂飙突进
Transliteration: kuáng biāo tū jìn
"这场狂飙突进的运动改变了德国文学的面貌。"
질풍노도
Transliteration: jilpung nodo
"그의 청소년기는 질풍노도의 시기였다."
疾風怒濤
Transliteration: shippū dotō
"彼は疾風怒濤の青春時代を過ごした。"
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