Meaning of EXISTENTIAL
| Pronunciation: | | `egzi'stenshul
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- [adj] derived from experience or the experience of existence; "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington; "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey
- [adj] relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
- [adj] of or as conceived by existentialism; "an existential moment of choice"
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| | Synonyms: | | empirical, experiential |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex`is*ten"tial\, a.
Having existence. [Archaic] --Bp. Barlow.
--{Ex`is*ten"tial*ly}, adv. [Archaic]
Existentially as well as essentially intelligent.
--Colerige.
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| | Related Terms: | | animist, animistic, atomistic, cosmotheistic, Cyrenaic, eclectic, Eleatic, empirical, Epicurean, eudaemonistic, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialistic, mechanistic, Megarian, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, sensationalistic, Stoic, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic |
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