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vocab_drabbles2023-05-12 02:13 am
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#062 - Existential
This week's word is
[ˌeɡzəˈsten(t)SHəl]
ADJECTIVE
Relating to existence.
"The climate crisis is an existential threat to the world."
Concerned with existence, especially human existence as viewed in the theories of existentialism.
"She'd studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being human."
Logic. (Of a proposition) affirming or implying the existence of a thing.
"The existential proposition that truth and reality are constructed fictions."
Existential
[ˌeɡzəˈsten(t)SHəl]
ADJECTIVE
Relating to existence.
"The climate crisis is an existential threat to the world."
Concerned with existence, especially human existence as viewed in the theories of existentialism.
"She'd studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being human."
Logic. (Of a proposition) affirming or implying the existence of a thing.
"The existential proposition that truth and reality are constructed fictions."