| 单词 | existential |
| 释义 | existential (once / 6559 pages) adj If something is existential, it has to do with human existence. If you wrestle with big questions involving the meaning of life, you may be having an existential crisis. Existential can also relate to existence in a more concrete way. For instance, the objections of your mother-in-law may pose an existential threat to the continuation of your Friday night card game. Often the word carries at least a nodding reference to the philosophy of existentialism associated with Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, and others, which emphasizes the individual as a free agent responsible for his actions. WORD FAMILYexistential: existentialism, existentially+/coexist: coexisted, coexistent, coexisting, coexists/coexistence: coexistences/coexistent: coexistence, coexistently/exist: coexist, existed, existent, existing, exists, preexist/existence: existences, existential/existent: existence, existently, nonexistent, pre-existent/existentialism: existentialist/existentialist: existentialists/existing: pre-existing/nonexistence: nonexistences/nonexistent: nonexistence/preexist: preexisted, preexistence, preexistent, preexisting, preexists/preexistence: preexistences USAGE EXAMPLESThe fashion industry is grappling with an existential question: how to sell its wares to consumers? Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) “Sorry, I’ve been advised not to discuss my existential status.” The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) Yet in searching the internet for an answer, it also reveals the question to be one of the great existential tensions of our time. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) 1adj relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) 2adj of or as conceived by existentialism an existential moment of choice 3adj derived from experience or the experience of existence "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey Syn experiential empiric, empirical derived from experiment and observation rather than theory |
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