existential
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- adjective
- /ˌɛksɪˈstɛnʃəl/
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existencial
- Many people struggle with existential questions about the purpose of life.
- an existential threat
- existential questions
- existential anxiety
But I think that we are facing an existential threat and it's come about.
- But I think that we are facing an existential threat and it's come about.
- Confronting death brings into focus existential dimensions of our lives.
- So on a darker topic, you've expressed serious concern about existential threats of AI.
- And that's, I think, a brilliant existential danger to humanity.
- That is a genuine existential worry that a lot of people have.
- If China wins capitalism, this is going to be an existential threat for humanity.
- So the secrecy has is actually putting us at existential risk in this case.
- So he says this simple being in its existential form is the soil of science.
- And there are many more more important existential questions that we need to ask today.
- Like I'm really like at an existential nadir.
- There is a lot of debate around the long term existential risk of AI, OK.
- But I've heard that this would give me a, an existential crisis, which, cool, cool.
Examples
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If China wins capitalism, this is going to be an existential threat for humanity.
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And there are many more more important existential questions that we need to ask today.
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But I think that we are facing an existential threat and it's come about.
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Well, in this case, it was we saw an existential sort of a threat.
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And, and so going out does create some existential threat for us back here on Earth.
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At present, the human race is facing an existential crisis.
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We're playing an existential game right now with existence.
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The arts allow one to engage important existential questions: Who am I?
Academic text (2011) -
Confronting death brings into focus existential dimensions of our lives.
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We may confront some of the fundamental existential questions that we usually spend our lives avoiding.
Academic text (1991)
Compounds
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A philosophy that says people create their own meaning by choosing freely and taking responsibility
- Specialized
A symbol showing that at least one thing exists that makes a statement true
A philosopher who studies personal freedom, responsibility, and life's meaning
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A symbol or word in logic that shows at least one thing meets a condition
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Existential comes from the simpler word exist, which is built from Latin parts ex- 'out' and sistere 'to stand', so it originally meant 'to stand out' or 'be there'. So, existential describes big questions about 'existence' or 'being', like worries about the meaning of life.