Definitions
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- noun A person who adheres to the philosophy of
existentialism . - adjective Of or pertaining to
existentialism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
- adjective relating to or involving existentialism
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Examples
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In all other things than atheism, now, I suspect the word existentialist fits me best- though the better read may correct me.
between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2005
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He is a waste of time and energy. - see full assessmentJaspers- called existentialist- Amazingly, he actually believed that philosophy begins where reason ends.
Need for the game gene in life Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Indeed, this is what it means to be an existentialist, which is just another word for nihilist.
One Cosmos 2009
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Indeed, this is what it means to be an existentialist, which is just another word for nihilist.
One Cosmos 2009
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It is incomprehensible to me that so many readers and critics have fallen for Dostoevsky's cheap tricks (and endured the unrelenting tedium of his fiction) and declared him an "existentialist" or religious "seeker" or some other such rot.
Canonical Writers 2008
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This concern has been called "existentialist", but there's no reason to smother it in philosophical terms.
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This concern has been called "existentialist", but there's no reason to smother it in philosophical terms.
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This concern has been called "existentialist", but there's no reason to smother it in philosophical terms.
January 4, 1960: Albert Camus Dies In a Car Crash, Age 46. His Books Make Him Immortal 2010
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Over time, if they do not integrate, that may indeed be an "existentialist" threat in the Steynian sense.
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When the commercial's director answers one of these interview questions by expressing a desire to make an "existentialist" TV ad, Watkins cuts away immediately from the director's face to a surreal shot of a man in an apple costume walking through a field.
Archive 2008-11-01 Ed Howard 2008
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