existentialism

/ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪzəm/ · noun

Meaning

(not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.

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existentialist philosophy(English)axiology(English)indexicalism(English)contingentism(English)ontology(English)epiphenomenalism(English)expressivism(English)experientialism(English)sartre(English)existentialist(English)absurdism(English)kierkegaard(English)

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