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existential
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective existential has 3 senses
- existential(s = adj.all) experiential - derived from experience or the experience of existence; "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"; "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"
- existential(a = adj.pert) Array - of or as conceived by existentialism; "an existential moment of choice"
- existential(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence); Array Derived form noun existence1
CIDE DICTIONARY
existential, a.
- Having existence. [1913 Webster]
- of or pertaining to, or having the character of, existentialism. [PJC]
- specifying actual existence, rather than only possibility; as, the existential operator. [PJC]"Existentially as well as essentially intelligent." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
existential, adj.
1 of or relating to existence.
2 Logic (of a proposition etc.) affirming or implying the existence of a thing.
3 Philos. concerned with existence, esp. with human existence as viewed by existentialism.
1 of or relating to existence.
2 Logic (of a proposition etc.) affirming or implying the existence of a thing.
3 Philos. concerned with existence, esp. with human existence as viewed by existentialism.
Derivative
existentially adv.
Etymology
LL existentialis (as EXISTENCE)
THESAURUS
existential
Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, atomistic, cosmotheistic, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, sensationalistic, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic
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