existential adj

1 derived from experience or the experience of existence; "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington; "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey [syn: experiential]

2 of or as conceived by existentialism; "an existential moment of choice"

3 relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)

English

Etymology

From existence.

Adjective

1. Of, or relating to existence.
2. Based on experience; empirical.
3. Of, or relating to existentialism.
4. That part of a sentence indicating existence e.g. "there is".

Antonyms

• non-phenomenal
• noumenal
• non-metaphysical

Derived terms

• existentialism
• existentialist
• existential quantifier

Related terms

• aseity
• exist
• existence
• existent
• existant

Translations

• Chinese: 存在主義的, 存在主义的
• Dutch: existentiële
• French: existentiel , existentielle
• German: existentielle
• Greek: υπαρξιακός , υπαρξιακή , υπαρξιακό
• Japanese: 存在的な
• Korean: 실존
• Russian: экзистенциальный , экзистенциальная , экзистенциальное , экзистенциальные p
• Spanish: existencial m|f

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
• Existentialism is a Humanism

See also

• All pages beginning with "existential"

Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, atomistic, cosmotheistic, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, sensationalistic, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic