- existential
- Pertaining to a branch of philosophy, existentialism, concerned with the search for the meaning of one's own existence, that has been extended into e. psychotherapy. [L. existentia, existence]
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Existential — may refer to:*Existential clause *Existential crisis *Existential fallacy *Existential humanism *Existential forgery *Existential risk *Existential therapy *Existential graph *Existential phenomenology *Existential quantification *Existentialism… … Wikipedia
EXISTENTIAL — Terme technique de l’ontologie professée par Martin Heidegger et exposée par lui dans L’Être et le Temps (Sein und Zeit , 1927). Depuis lors, ce terme a été repris par différentes écoles existentialistes, mais non par toutes. Il y a lieu de bien… … Encyclopédie Universelle
existenţial — EXISTENŢIÁL, Ă, existenţiali, e, adj. (Rar) Privitor la existenţă, care ţine de existenţă. [pr.: eg zis ten ţi al] – Din fr. existentiel. Trimis de claudia, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98 existenţiál adj. m. (sil. ţi al) [x pron. gz], pl.… … Dicționar Român
Existential — Ex is*ten tial, a. 1. Having existence. [Archaic] Bp. Barlow. [1913 Webster] 2. of or pertaining to, or having the character of, existentialism. [PJC] 3. (Logic) specifying actual existence, rather than only possibility; as, the existential… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
existential... — existential..., Schreibvariante für existenzial … Universal-Lexikon
existential — 1690s, pertaining to existence, from L.L. existentialis/exsistentialis, from existentia/exsistentia (see EXISTENCE (Cf. existence)). As a term in logic, from 1819; in philosophy, from 1937, tracing back to the Danish works of Kierkegaard (see… … Etymology dictionary
existential — ► ADJECTIVE 1) relating to existence. 2) Philosophy concerned with existentialism. DERIVATIVES existentially adverb … English terms dictionary
existential — [eg΄zis ten′shəl, ek΄sisten′shəl; eg΄zis ten′chəl, ek′sis ten′chəl] adj. [ModL existentialis] 1. of, based on, or expressing existence 2. of, relating to, or as conceived of in, existentialism 3. Logic implicitly or explicitly asserting actuality … English World dictionary
existential — [[t]e̱gzɪste̱nʃ(ə)l[/t]] 1) ADJ: ADJ n Existential means relating to human existence and experience. [FORMAL] Existential questions requiring religious answers still persist. 2) ADJ: ADJ n You use existential to describe fear, anxiety, and other… … English dictionary
existential — adjective Date: 1693 1. of, relating to, or affirming existence < existential propositions > 2. a. grounded in existence or the experience of existence ; empirical b. having being in time and space 3. [translation of Danish eksistentiel & German… … New Collegiate Dictionary
existential — existentially, adv. /eg zi sten sheuhl, ek si /, adj. 1. pertaining to existence. 2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of existentialism: an existential hero. [1685 95; < LL existentialis relating to existing. See EXISTENCE, AL1] * * * … Universalium
