Definition of existential in English:

existential

adjective ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃ(ə)lˌɛɡzəˈstɛn(t)ʃ(ə)l

1Relating to existence.
（与）存在（有关）的
Example sentencesExamples
- By default, Giacometti's figures are read, even today, as symbols of the existential condition of humanity, a last-ditch stand before the void.
- Every few months it seems like all bloggers are called upon to answer the big existential question, ‘What's A Weblog?’
- This statement of existential purpose implies a domestic emphasis - that we must be prepared to fight significantly different kinds of wars from what we think of today.
- Finally, someone had brought up the existential question: for the brief time between Pac-Man disappearing from one side of the screen and appearing on the other, where does he go?
- That manifestation of the changed existential condition took us unawares - as the change itself took us unprepared.
- The young Scorsese depicts the sights, sounds and existential desperation of Little Italy's underworld, combining hardcore realism with a sense of subtlety bordering on the sublime.
- Thus, myth is a kind of language made up of symbols whose referent is the sacred, and whose meanings are concerned with ultimate or existential issues of human life and destiny.
- We can of course make an explicit existential judgement which affirms the existence of the world, but in so doing we are merely making explicit what was there all along.
- Nashe in The Music of Chance has a compulsion to doubt - the ‘ordinary’ characters are only marginal figures - engaged in a cycle of powerful existential anguish.
- So I've been going through an existential reckoning lately, in which I'm in the process of critically examining what I'm doing with my life and why I'm doing it.
- Rather than decide to actually cover this story of monstrous proportions, they resorted instead to bogus and pathetic bouts of existential soul-searching.
- The existential condition of living in a body mediates our perceptual experience of the world.
- Yet, although their tackling of such existential matters displays a maturity that few of their hard-rocking colleagues ever come near, the means of delivery can at times seem adolescent.
- Although the figures are unmistakably American in appearance, their titles suggest general existential conditions.
- I'm not sure if Kelly is correct to call this the Church's ‘greatest existential crisis since the Reformation.’
- Consequently, in his exhibition, the art-work is not a scene of intimate significance, but a testimony of engagement with the crucial existential issues of its epoch and locale.
- As well as providing succour for those troubled by the existential dilemma, religion, or at least a primitive spirituality, would have played another important role as human societies developed.
- The problems are not only theoretical; they are existential.
- According to Berman, brain images and models may skew and privilege model-friendly properties over existential characteristics of life and thought.
- Instead, we are concerned with certain existential realities that confront us, and which will continue to confront us.
1. 1.1Philosophy Concerned with existentialism.
  Example sentencesExamples
  She argues that Mary Daly, like Tillich, correlates existential questions with ontological/theological concerns.
  As a statement of existential ontology this says nothing about which affective states are most prevalent.
  So philosophers take the risk of nihilism and existential dread because the allure of wonder is too great.
  Administrators were censoring existential themes out of student publications, while Francis was discussing Camus, Sartre, and Heidegger.
  The existential philosopher Martin Heidegger precedes Foucault in attempting to understand the historical conditionalitics of Being
2. 1.2Logic (of a proposition) affirming or implying the existence of a thing.
  〔逻〕（命题）存在的，断定存在的
  Example sentencesExamples
  So, singular negative existential propositions are no less paradoxical than are general ones.
  Peirce aimed to extend Venn's system in expressive power with respect to the first two kinds of propositions, i.e., existential and disjunctive statements.
  If Quine is correct, then we have a means of handling existential propositions that treats them neither as tautologies nor as contradictions,
  Life after Rupert - soon to be 72 - may be the most existential proposition in business today.

Derivatives

existentially

adverb

A lot of Bresson's work has been read to have spiritual transcendence, yet also can be read existentially, politically and morally.
Example sentencesExamples
- I've lived existentially for 25 years, imagining a moment at a time.
- A postponement of joy for some future, but existentially uncertain, pay-off.
- All of which makes me feel deeply, existentially guilty.
- One thing I won't do is put the central characters into a beach-party situation and have them talking existentially about why they surf.

Origin

Late 17th century: from late Latin existentialis, from existentia (see existence).

Rhymes

cadential, confidential, consequential, credential, deferential, differential, essential, evidential, experiential, exponential, influential, intelligential, irreverential, jurisprudential, penitential, pestilential, potential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, quintessential, referential, residential, reverential, sapiential, sciential, sentential, sequential, tangential, torrential

Definition of existential in US English:

existential

adjectiveˌɛɡzəˈstɛn(t)ʃ(ə)lˌeɡzəˈsten(t)SH(ə)l

1Relating to existence.
（与）存在（有关）的
Example sentencesExamples
- Although the figures are unmistakably American in appearance, their titles suggest general existential conditions.
- Instead, we are concerned with certain existential realities that confront us, and which will continue to confront us.
- I'm not sure if Kelly is correct to call this the Church's ‘greatest existential crisis since the Reformation.’
- According to Berman, brain images and models may skew and privilege model-friendly properties over existential characteristics of life and thought.
- Yet, although their tackling of such existential matters displays a maturity that few of their hard-rocking colleagues ever come near, the means of delivery can at times seem adolescent.
- Consequently, in his exhibition, the art-work is not a scene of intimate significance, but a testimony of engagement with the crucial existential issues of its epoch and locale.
- The existential condition of living in a body mediates our perceptual experience of the world.
- By default, Giacometti's figures are read, even today, as symbols of the existential condition of humanity, a last-ditch stand before the void.
- Rather than decide to actually cover this story of monstrous proportions, they resorted instead to bogus and pathetic bouts of existential soul-searching.
- So I've been going through an existential reckoning lately, in which I'm in the process of critically examining what I'm doing with my life and why I'm doing it.
- As well as providing succour for those troubled by the existential dilemma, religion, or at least a primitive spirituality, would have played another important role as human societies developed.
- This statement of existential purpose implies a domestic emphasis - that we must be prepared to fight significantly different kinds of wars from what we think of today.
- That manifestation of the changed existential condition took us unawares - as the change itself took us unprepared.
- We can of course make an explicit existential judgement which affirms the existence of the world, but in so doing we are merely making explicit what was there all along.
- Nashe in The Music of Chance has a compulsion to doubt - the ‘ordinary’ characters are only marginal figures - engaged in a cycle of powerful existential anguish.
- The problems are not only theoretical; they are existential.
- Finally, someone had brought up the existential question: for the brief time between Pac-Man disappearing from one side of the screen and appearing on the other, where does he go?
- Thus, myth is a kind of language made up of symbols whose referent is the sacred, and whose meanings are concerned with ultimate or existential issues of human life and destiny.
- Every few months it seems like all bloggers are called upon to answer the big existential question, ‘What's A Weblog?’
- The young Scorsese depicts the sights, sounds and existential desperation of Little Italy's underworld, combining hardcore realism with a sense of subtlety bordering on the sublime.
1. 1.1Philosophy Concerned with existence, especially human existence as viewed in the theories of existentialism.
  〔哲〕关于（人的）存在的，（关于）存在主义的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The existential philosopher Martin Heidegger precedes Foucault in attempting to understand the historical conditionalitics of Being
  As a statement of existential ontology this says nothing about which affective states are most prevalent.
  Administrators were censoring existential themes out of student publications, while Francis was discussing Camus, Sartre, and Heidegger.
  So philosophers take the risk of nihilism and existential dread because the allure of wonder is too great.
  She argues that Mary Daly, like Tillich, correlates existential questions with ontological/theological concerns.
2. 1.2Logic (of a proposition) affirming or implying the existence of a thing.
  〔逻〕（命题）存在的，断定存在的
  Example sentencesExamples
  So, singular negative existential propositions are no less paradoxical than are general ones.
  If Quine is correct, then we have a means of handling existential propositions that treats them neither as tautologies nor as contradictions,
  Peirce aimed to extend Venn's system in expressive power with respect to the first two kinds of propositions, i.e., existential and disjunctive statements.
  Life after Rupert - soon to be 72 - may be the most existential proposition in business today.

Origin

Late 17th century: from late Latin existentialis, from existentia (see existence).

词汇	existential
释义	Definition of existential in English: existential adjective ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃ(ə)lˌɛɡzəˈstɛn(t)ʃ(ə)l 1Relating to existence. （与）存在（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples By default, Giacometti's figures are read, even today, as symbols of the existential condition of humanity, a last-ditch stand before the void. Every few months it seems like all bloggers are called upon to answer the big existential question, ‘What's A Weblog?’ This statement of existential purpose implies a domestic emphasis - that we must be prepared to fight significantly different kinds of wars from what we think of today. Finally, someone had brought up the existential question: for the brief time between Pac-Man disappearing from one side of the screen and appearing on the other, where does he go? That manifestation of the changed existential condition took us unawares - as the change itself took us unprepared. The young Scorsese depicts the sights, sounds and existential desperation of Little Italy's underworld, combining hardcore realism with a sense of subtlety bordering on the sublime. Thus, myth is a kind of language made up of symbols whose referent is the sacred, and whose meanings are concerned with ultimate or existential issues of human life and destiny. We can of course make an explicit existential judgement which affirms the existence of the world, but in so doing we are merely making explicit what was there all along. Nashe in The Music of Chance has a compulsion to doubt - the ‘ordinary’ characters are only marginal figures - engaged in a cycle of powerful existential anguish. So I've been going through an existential reckoning lately, in which I'm in the process of critically examining what I'm doing with my life and why I'm doing it. Rather than decide to actually cover this story of monstrous proportions, they resorted instead to bogus and pathetic bouts of existential soul-searching. The existential condition of living in a body mediates our perceptual experience of the world. Yet, although their tackling of such existential matters displays a maturity that few of their hard-rocking colleagues ever come near, the means of delivery can at times seem adolescent. Although the figures are unmistakably American in appearance, their titles suggest general existential conditions. I'm not sure if Kelly is correct to call this the Church's ‘greatest existential crisis since the Reformation.’ Consequently, in his exhibition, the art-work is not a scene of intimate significance, but a testimony of engagement with the crucial existential issues of its epoch and locale. As well as providing succour for those troubled by the existential dilemma, religion, or at least a primitive spirituality, would have played another important role as human societies developed. The problems are not only theoretical; they are existential. According to Berman, brain images and models may skew and privilege model-friendly properties over existential characteristics of life and thought. Instead, we are concerned with certain existential realities that confront us, and which will continue to confront us. 1.1Philosophy Concerned with existentialism. Example sentencesExamples She argues that Mary Daly, like Tillich, correlates existential questions with ontological/theological concerns. As a statement of existential ontology this says nothing about which affective states are most prevalent. So philosophers take the risk of nihilism and existential dread because the allure of wonder is too great. Administrators were censoring existential themes out of student publications, while Francis was discussing Camus, Sartre, and Heidegger. The existential philosopher Martin Heidegger precedes Foucault in attempting to understand the historical conditionalitics of Being 1.2Logic (of a proposition) affirming or implying the existence of a thing. 〔逻〕（命题）存在的，断定存在的 Example sentencesExamples So, singular negative existential propositions are no less paradoxical than are general ones. Peirce aimed to extend Venn's system in expressive power with respect to the first two kinds of propositions, i.e., existential and disjunctive statements. If Quine is correct, then we have a means of handling existential propositions that treats them neither as tautologies nor as contradictions, Life after Rupert - soon to be 72 - may be the most existential proposition in business today. Derivatives existentially adverb A lot of Bresson's work has been read to have spiritual transcendence, yet also can be read existentially, politically and morally. Example sentencesExamples I've lived existentially for 25 years, imagining a moment at a time. A postponement of joy for some future, but existentially uncertain, pay-off. All of which makes me feel deeply, existentially guilty. One thing I won't do is put the central characters into a beach-party situation and have them talking existentially about why they surf. Origin Late 17th century: from late Latin existentialis, from existentia (see existence). Rhymes cadential, confidential, consequential, credential, deferential, differential, essential, evidential, experiential, exponential, influential, intelligential, irreverential, jurisprudential, penitential, pestilential, potential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, quintessential, referential, residential, reverential, sapiential, sciential, sentential, sequential, tangential, torrential Definition of existential in US English: existential adjectiveˌɛɡzəˈstɛn(t)ʃ(ə)lˌeɡzəˈsten(t)SH(ə)l 1Relating to existence. （与）存在（有关）的 Example sentencesExamples Although the figures are unmistakably American in appearance, their titles suggest general existential conditions. Instead, we are concerned with certain existential realities that confront us, and which will continue to confront us. I'm not sure if Kelly is correct to call this the Church's ‘greatest existential crisis since the Reformation.’ According to Berman, brain images and models may skew and privilege model-friendly properties over existential characteristics of life and thought. Yet, although their tackling of such existential matters displays a maturity that few of their hard-rocking colleagues ever come near, the means of delivery can at times seem adolescent. Consequently, in his exhibition, the art-work is not a scene of intimate significance, but a testimony of engagement with the crucial existential issues of its epoch and locale. The existential condition of living in a body mediates our perceptual experience of the world. By default, Giacometti's figures are read, even today, as symbols of the existential condition of humanity, a last-ditch stand before the void. Rather than decide to actually cover this story of monstrous proportions, they resorted instead to bogus and pathetic bouts of existential soul-searching. So I've been going through an existential reckoning lately, in which I'm in the process of critically examining what I'm doing with my life and why I'm doing it. As well as providing succour for those troubled by the existential dilemma, religion, or at least a primitive spirituality, would have played another important role as human societies developed. This statement of existential purpose implies a domestic emphasis - that we must be prepared to fight significantly different kinds of wars from what we think of today. That manifestation of the changed existential condition took us unawares - as the change itself took us unprepared. We can of course make an explicit existential judgement which affirms the existence of the world, but in so doing we are merely making explicit what was there all along. Nashe in The Music of Chance has a compulsion to doubt - the ‘ordinary’ characters are only marginal figures - engaged in a cycle of powerful existential anguish. The problems are not only theoretical; they are existential. Finally, someone had brought up the existential question: for the brief time between Pac-Man disappearing from one side of the screen and appearing on the other, where does he go? Thus, myth is a kind of language made up of symbols whose referent is the sacred, and whose meanings are concerned with ultimate or existential issues of human life and destiny. Every few months it seems like all bloggers are called upon to answer the big existential question, ‘What's A Weblog?’ The young Scorsese depicts the sights, sounds and existential desperation of Little Italy's underworld, combining hardcore realism with a sense of subtlety bordering on the sublime. 1.1Philosophy Concerned with existence, especially human existence as viewed in the theories of existentialism. 〔哲〕关于（人的）存在的，（关于）存在主义的 Example sentencesExamples The existential philosopher Martin Heidegger precedes Foucault in attempting to understand the historical conditionalitics of Being As a statement of existential ontology this says nothing about which affective states are most prevalent. Administrators were censoring existential themes out of student publications, while Francis was discussing Camus, Sartre, and Heidegger. So philosophers take the risk of nihilism and existential dread because the allure of wonder is too great. She argues that Mary Daly, like Tillich, correlates existential questions with ontological/theological concerns. 1.2Logic (of a proposition) affirming or implying the existence of a thing. 〔逻〕（命题）存在的，断定存在的 Example sentencesExamples So, singular negative existential propositions are no less paradoxical than are general ones. If Quine is correct, then we have a means of handling existential propositions that treats them neither as tautologies nor as contradictions, Peirce aimed to extend Venn's system in expressive power with respect to the first two kinds of propositions, i.e., existential and disjunctive statements. Life after Rupert - soon to be 72 - may be the most existential proposition in business today. Origin Late 17th century: from late Latin existentialis, from existentia (see existence).
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