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EXISTENTIAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Derived from experience or the experience of existence
Example:
formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters
Synonyms:
existential; experiential
Classified under:
Similar:
empiric; empirical (derived from experiment and observation rather than theory)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
existence (the state or fact of existing)
Derivation:
existence (the state or fact of existing)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or as conceived by existentialism
Example:
an existential moment of choice
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
existentialism ((philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves)
