existential
- pertaining to existence.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of existentialism: an existential hero.
Origin of existential
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The other characters struggle, too, to varying material degrees, but all existentially.
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They exist only so long as they are apprehended; and they are numerically and existentially distinct in each individual mind.
A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'Norman Kemp Smith
It is not easy to avoid the conclusion that Dewey conceives of 'consciousness' as a construct of existentially distinct terms.
John Dewey's logical theoryDelton Thomas Howard
Light is really, physically, existentially, refracted into these forms.
Creative IntelligenceJohn Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
existential
- of or relating to existence, esp human existence
- philosophy pertaining to what exists, and is thus known by experience rather than reason; empirical as opposed to theoretical
- logic denoting or relating to a formula or proposition asserting the existence of at least one object fulfilling a given condition; containing an existential quantifier
- of or relating to existentialism
- an existential statement or formula
- short for existential quantifier
Word Origin and History for existentially
existential
1690s, "pertaining to existence," from Late Latin existentialis/exsistentialis, from existentia/exsistentia (see existence). As a term in logic, from 1819; in philosophy, from 1937, tracing back to the Danish works of Kierkegaard (see existentialism). Related: Existentially.