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
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The existentialist writer reluctantly moved to the northern city in 1931 for a teaching job after he had failed to obtain one in his native Paris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
As an old-school existentialist, I just go through life with a certain detached, fun, irony.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
His vivid, aggressive works often highlighted the struggles of rural Japan, notably in The Silent Cry, an existentialist novel which tells the story of two brothers returning to their ancestral home after decades of separation.
From BBC ● Mar. 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
“An existentialist is someone who lives for the moment.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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