existentialism
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from French existentialisme.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪzəm/
existentialism
- (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.
- noumenalism
- French: existentialisme
- German: Existentialismus
- Italian: esistenzialismo
- Portuguese: existencialismo
- Russian: экзистенциали́зм
- Spanish: existencialismo
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