Existential

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Existential \Ex`is*ten"tial\, a.
     1. Having existence. [Archaic] --Bp. Barlow.
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     2. of or pertaining to, or having the character of,
        existentialism.


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     3. (Logic) specifying actual existence, rather than only
        possibility; as, the existential operator.
        [PJC] --{Ex`is*ten"tial*ly}, adv. [Archaic]
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              Existentially as well as essentially intelligent.
                                                    --Colerige.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "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