existentialism

Borrowed from French existentialisme.

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existentialism (countable and uncountable, plural existentialisms) (philosophy)

1. (uncountable) A 20th-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.

   The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.

2. (countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.

   Sartre's existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.

   • 1965 Sep, Mikel Dufrenne, “Existentialism and Existentialisms”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 26, number 1, page 51:

     Instead of Existentialism, we should speak of Existentialisms.

• noumenalism

• exist
• existence
• existential
• existentialist

Borrowed from French existentialisme.

existentialism c

1. (philosophy) existentialism

   Synonym: existentialfilosofi

• existens
• existera
• existentialist
• existentialistisk
• existentiell