|shtu̇rˌmu̇ntˈdräŋ noun
Usage: usually capitalized S&D
Etymology: German, storm and stress, from Sturm und Drang (1776), drama by Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger died 1831 German dramatist and novelist
1. : a literary movement of the latter half of the 18th century in Germany characterized by a revolt against the strictures that the Enlightenment and a sterile imitation of French literature imposed, by the exaltation of nature, intuition, and inborn genius as the wellsprings of literature, and by works that typically are loosely constructed, written in realistic language, and marked by rousing action and high emotionalism and that frequently deal with the individual in revolt against the injustices of society
2. : storm and stress : turmoil
can no longer endure the buffetings of fate, the Sturm und Drang of life — Times Literary Supplement