existential
adjective
uk
/ˌeɡ.zɪˈsten.ʃəl/ us
/ˌeɡ.zɪˈsten.ʃəl/ (also existentialist)
relating to a philosophy (= system of ideas) according to which the world has no meaning and each person is alone and completely responsible for his or her own actions:
- As a young artist not knowing how to define himself, he faced an existential crisis.
- There is no answer to that existential question.
- French philosophers even described what the footballer had done as being an existential act.
- The film could be described as an existential comedy.
- He said that, though a serious concern, terrorism shouldn’t be thought of as an existential threat.
- It's an exaggeration to say he poses an existential danger to democracy.
- aesthete
- aesthetic
- aesthetically
- anthropocentric
- anthropocentrism
- essentialism
- existentialism
- existentialist
- existentialistic
- existentialistically
- non-philosophical
- notional
- ontological
- ontologically
- ontology
- spatiotemporally
- superorganic
- supersensible
- syllogism
- syllogistic
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