existentialism

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Etymology

Borrowed from French existentialisme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪzəm/

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Noun

existentialism (countable and uncountable, plural existentialisms)

1. (philosophy, uncountable) 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.

2. (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.

Antonyms

• noumenalism

Related terms

• exist
• existence
• existential
• existentialist

Translations

philosophical movement

Arabic: وُجُودِيَّة f (wujūdiyya) Armenian: էքզիստենցիալիզմ (ēkʻzistencʻializm) Bengali: অস্তিত্ববাদ (bn) (ostittobad) Bulgarian: екзистенциализъм m (ekzistencializǎm) Burmese: ဖြစ်တည်မှုပဓာနဝါဒ (hpractanyhmu.pa.dhana.wada.) Catalan: existencialisme (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 存在主義 / 存在主义 (zh) (cúnzàizhǔyì) Czech: existencialismus m Danish: eksistentialisme c Dutch: existentialisme (nl) n Esperanto: ekzistadismo Finnish: eksistentialismi (fi) French: existentialisme (fr) m Galician: existencialismo (gl) m Georgian: ეგზისტენციალიზმი (ka) (egzisṭencializmi) German: Existentialismus (de) m Greek: υπαρξισμός (el) m (yparxismós) Icelandic: tilvistarstefna Irish: eiseachas m Italian: esistenzialismo (it) m Japanese: 実存主義 (ja) (jitsuzonshugi) Kazakh: экзистенциализм (ékzistensializm) Korean: 실존주의(實存主義) (siljonjuui) Latvian: eksistenciālisms m Lithuanian: egzistencializmas (lt) m Macedonian: егзистенцијали́зам m (egzistencijalízam) Malay: faham kewujudan, eksistensialisme Malayalam: അസ്തിത്വവാദം (astitvavādaṁ) Maltese: eżistenzjaliżmu m Persian: هستی‌گرایی (hasti-gerâyi), اگزیستانسیالیسم (fa) (egzistânsiâlism) Polish: egzystencjalizm (pl) m Portuguese: existencialismo (pt) m Punjabi: ਅਸਤਿਤਵਵਾਦ (pa) m (asatitvavād) Romanian: existențialism (ro) n Russian: экзистенциали́зм (ru) m (ekzistencialízm) Serbo-Croatian: egzistencijalìzam (sh) m Slovak: existencializmus Spanish: existencialismo (es) m Swedish: existentialism (sv) c Thai: อัตถิภาวนิยม (àt-tì-paa-wá-ní-yom) Turkish: varoluşçuluk (tr), egzistansiyalizm (tr) Ukrainian: екзистенціалізм m (ekzystencializm) Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa hiện sinh, thuyết hiện sinh Welsh: dirfodaeth f

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French existentialisme.

Noun

existentialism c

1. (philosophy) existentialism

   Synonym: existentialfilosofi

Declension

Declension of existentialism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	existentialism	existentialisms
	definite	existentialismen	existentialismens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• existens
• existera
• existentialist
• existentialistisk
• existentiell