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 existentialist Simone de Beauvoir hailed her as an icon of "absolute freedom" - raising Brigitte to the status of a philosophy.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
For Linklater, the 63-year-old director of “Boyhood,” “Dazed and Confused” and “Before Sunset,” “Hit Man” is a typically existentialist film but playfully twisted into a genre-bending noir screwball.
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
“An existentialist is someone who lives for the moment.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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