adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to existentialism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
existentialist
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noun
Meaning 2
A person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
Meaning 3
relating to or involving existentialism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- existentialist movement
- existentialist philosophy
- the existentialist character of his ideas
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noun
Meaning 4
a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: existentialist philosopher, existential philosopher
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: philosopher
Narrower terms: Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir, Camus, Albert Camus, Heidegger, Martin Heidegger, Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre
History
Etymology
From French existentialiste, equivalent to existential + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: existencialista — of or pertaining to existentialism
- Czech: existencialistický — of or pertaining to existentialism
- Galician: existencialista — of or pertaining to existentialism
- Latvian: eksistenciālistisks — of or pertaining to existentialism
- Portuguese: existencialista — of or pertaining to existentialism
- Serbo-Croatian: egzistencijalìstičkī — of or pertaining to existentialism
- Spanish: existencialista — of or pertaining to existentialism
- Catalan: existencialista — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Chinese Mandarin: 存在主義者 /存在主义者 (cúnzài zhǔyì zhě) — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Czech: existencialista — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Danish: eksistentialist — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Finnish: eksistentialisti — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- French: existentialiste — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Galician: existencialista — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- German: Existentialist — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Hungarian: egzisztencialista — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Icelandic: tilvistarsinni — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Italian: esistenzialista — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Japanese: 実存主義者 (jitsuzonshugisha) — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Korean: 실존주의자 (siljonjuuija) — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Latvian: eksistenciālists — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Latvian: eksistenciāliste — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Maltese: eżistenzjalista — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Portuguese: existencialista — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Romanian: existențialist — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Russian: экзистенциали́ст (ekzistencialíst) — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Serbo-Croatian: egzistencijàlist — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Slovak: existencialista — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Spanish: existencialista — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism
- Turkish: egzistansiyalist — a person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism