existentialism
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French existentialisme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪzəm/
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Noun
existentialism (countable and uncountable, plural existentialisms)
- (philosophy, not countable) 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.
- (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.
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Translations
philosophical movement
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Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from French existentialisme.
Noun
existentialism c
- (philosophy) existentialism
- Synonym: existentialfilosofi
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
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| singular | indefinite | existentialism | existentialisms |
| definite | existentialismen | existentialismens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |