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[–] 7 points 4 months ago

Existential dread is not anxiety.

Uhh… yes it is? I mean, what emotion would you otherwise attribute to it? Because dread as an emotion—also literally in the term “existential dread”—can be directly described as an anticipatory anxiety about future events.

The two are extremely closely related if not referring to the exact same feeling. They really only differ in context, and even then only semantically.

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