Kierkegaardian

American  

[keer-ki-gahr-dee-uhn, keer-ki-gahr-] / ˌkɪər kɪˈgɑr di ən, ˈkɪər kɪˌgɑr- /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling the philosophy or religious views of Kierkegaard.

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noun

1. an adherent of the views of Kierkegaard.

Other Word Forms

• Kierkegaardianism noun

Etymology

Origin of Kierkegaardian

First recorded in 1940–45; Kierkegaard + -ian

Example Sentences

She is striving, in the Kierkegaardian tradition, to create a majority of one.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

Tux is philosophically speculative, delivering aphoristic riffs that reveal Kierkegaardian abysses in such daily trivialities as a campfire, and mini marshmallows in cocoa.

From The New Yorker • May 28, 2019

With the help of cell phones, e-mail and handheld games, it's easier to stay busy, in the Kierkegaardian sense, than it's ever been.

From Time • Aug. 28, 2010

It’s not so much that I wanted the man to have a breakdown, but a Kierkegaardian crisis of thought might have helped him see the world anew.

From Newsweek

I had, it appears, about Heiberg's Klister and Malle, an inseparable betrothed couple, used what was, for that matter, an undoubtedly Kierkegaardian expression, viz., to beslobber a relation.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen