existential

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or dealing with existence.
  2. adjective Based on experience; empirical.
  3. adjective Of or as conceived by existentialism or existentialists: an existential moment of choice.

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  • Zombie plots have been used to comment upon everything from the exploitation of the working class to the perils of pollution to the existential isolation of modern man to the brain-numbing dangers of a consumer culture. —  FSF,October2007
  • I prefer the name existential to these others since it provides at least initial reference to what the idea (representationally) consists of and from what it is derived, namely, existents. —  Integral Options Cafe
  • He needed something existential -- he needed a taste. —  UUpdates - All updates
  • The author of this comic gets an extra five points in my book for using the word existential, as well as making a loose reference to the Danish philosopher —  Branded in the 80s!
  • We begin by showing that existing abstraction frameworks are inherently incomplete for verifying purely existential or mixed universal-existential properties. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. from Middle Latin *existentialis (in deriv. existentialita(t-)s), from existentia, existence: see existence.
 

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/ɛksɪsˈtɛnʃəl/
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