existentially
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7.7
- adverb
- /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəli/
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existencialmente
- Most of these jobs are not existentially necessary for the survival of our species.
- existentially threatening
- existentially present
- existentially different
I would not travel on foot unless there was an existentially important reason for it.
- I would not travel on foot unless there was an existentially important reason for it.
- We become human existentially, you could say.
- Most of these jobs are not existentially necessary for the survival of our species.
- Only boredom, if fully realized and grappled with, will keep us existentially alert.
- I just had this epiphany of like, I me being like, existentially lonely.
- And nothing is more kind of like, you know, like existentially barren than the characters experience in that movie.
- But all of a sudden, he had this moment where he started to really question existentially whether this conflict was still worth it.
- And even as you heal from it, there's something so isolating, so existentially messed up, so confusing, so betrayal laden that we feel lonely.
- And so people do, existentially at least.
- He in fact, seduced her, not sexually, but we could say existentially.
- Nature has always been difficult to define, although it's palpable and existentially accurate.
- But the proxies for what men miss, I think more spiritually and and existentially.
- It wasn't about it wasn't about the sort of social signal that it it plays the role that it plays for people existentially kind of how it feels.
Examples
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And how important is it to the search for plausible and existentially beneficial solutions to Africa's problems of self-definition in the contemporary world?
Academic text (1995) -
The reality of that is that you are going to encounter moments that are going to feel existentially challenging.
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I would not travel on foot unless there was an existentially important reason for it.
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We become human existentially, you could say.
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But all of a sudden, he had this moment where he started to really question existentially whether this conflict was still worth it.
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I began to sense we must make room for all, and that this must be understood existentially.
Academic text (1993) -
Only boredom, if fully realized and grappled with, will keep us existentially alert.
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Perhaps, in modernity, the art of art history has as its principal task to find an alternative to that sense of loss that is connected existentially with the rise and fall of the classic idea of art.
Academic text (2007) -
Thus, Hisamatsu indicated that Zen's basic authority is True Self, or, to put it more existentially, the authority of no authority.
Academic text (2011) -
The questions about life's meaning can often be seen existentially as inquiries into our very existence.
Synonyms
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9.8
In a way that is about the nature of being or existence
Surface Forms
Morphology
existentially = existential (semi-transparent) = exist + ence + ial + ly
Formed by adding '-ly' to 'existential'; the adverbial formation is regular, but 'existential' often carries philosophical or specialized connotations making the relation slightly less transparent to average learners.
Etymology
Existentially comes from the simple root exist, which means 'to be' or 'to live' and is the same root in existence ('being'). So, to feel or think existentially is to think about your being, survival, or the meaning of your life.