Synonyms of Sturm und Drang

Sturm und Drang

noun

ˌshtu̇rm-u̇nt-ˈdräŋ 

as in turmoil

a disturbed or uneasy state

in a year filled with corporate Sturm und Drang, the company was headed by no fewer than three different CEOs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• turmoil
• unrest
• confusion
• anxiety
• tension
• excitement
• restlessness
• trouble
• disquiet
• fermentation
• unease
• ferment
• turbulence
• uneasiness
• upheaval
• chaos
• storm
• disruption
• stir
• unquietness
• agitation
• anarchy
• restiveness
• commotion
• tumult
• perturbation
• disorder
• hubbub
• uproar
• fidgets
• disquietude
• tumultuousness
• moil
• unsettlement
• queasiness
• welter
• inquietude

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ease
• peace
• calm
• quiet
• tranquility
• order
• peacefulness
• orderliness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Sturm und Drang

Thanksgiving season offers a respite from this Sturm und Drang. — MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025

His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis. — News Desk, Artforum, 23 Oct. 2025

Yet there has been an asymmetry between the Sturm und Drang of that operation—a midnight raid featured agents rappelling from helicopters onto a South Side apartment building—and its effect. — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025

Still, after all the Sturm und Drang surrounding Starbucks in the last few years, the best favor a CEO could do for the company and its troops is to be clear and articulate the way forward. — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024

Of course, few movies arrive onscreen with as much cultural Sturm und Drang as director Marc Webb’s megabudget contemporization of 1937’s epochal Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025

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