Kierkegaardian
Americanadjective
noun
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Origin of Kierkegaardian
First recorded in 1940–45; Kierkegaard + -ian
Example Sentences
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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
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