Existential Definition

ĕgzĭ-stĕnshəl, ĕksĭ-
adjective
Of, relating to, or dealing with existence.
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Of, based on, or expressing existence.
Webster's New World
Of, relating to, or as conceived of in, existentialism.
Webster's New World
Implicitly or explicitly asserting actuality as opposed to conceptual possibility.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to a construction or part of a construction that indicates existence, as the words there is in the sentence There is a cat on the mat.
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noun
An existential word or construction.
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Origin of Existential

Existential Sentence Examples

  • Her existential dilemma is that she doesn't want to be a grown-up.

  • Modal, impersonal, existential judgments are all accounted for.

  • In all areas, everybody, for one reason or another, is asking almost existential questions.

  • His writings prior to 1960 are in the tradition of existential phenomenology.

  • On the one hand, early in the igth century Herbart started the view that a categorical judgment is never a judgment of existence, but always hypothetical; on the other hand, in the latter part of the century Brentano started the view that all categorical judgments are existential.

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