existentialism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French existentialisme.
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Noun[edit]
existentialism (countable and uncountable, plural existentialisms)
- (philosophy, not countable) A twentieth-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.
- (philosophy, 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.
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philosophical movement
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Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French existentialisme.
Noun[edit]
existentialism c
- (philosophy) existentialism
- Synonym: existentialfilosofi
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Nominative | existentialism | existentialismen | — | — |
Genitive | existentialisms | existentialismens | — | — |
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