1. A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
   "the industrial revolution was a period of great Sturm und Drang";
   - turbulence, upheaval
    
2. A late 18th-century German literary and artistic movement characterized by emotional intensity and rebellion against rationalism
   "His early poems reflected the passion of Sturm und Drang"

Type of: disorder

Encyclopedia: Sturm und Drang