existentialist
Americanadjective
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of or relating to existentialism.
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relating to concerns about one's own existence or survival; existential.
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affirming or celebrating existence.
noun
Example Sentences
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The film scandalised the American public and was banned in some US states, while the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir hailed her as an icon of "absolute freedom".
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
As an old-school existentialist, I just go through life with a certain detached, fun, irony.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2023
The draft feels like a café napkin sketch: schematic and brutally declamatory — the dialogue a parody of existentialist theater shouted through a bullhorn.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2023
In her earlier books, “At the Existentialist Café” and “How to Live,” Bakewell introduced readers to the major questions facing the existentialist philosophers.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2023
It is hard to imagine a solitary, independent, existentialist minnow, recognizable for himself alone; minnows in a school behave like interchangeable, identical parts of an organism.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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