exist | (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: be |
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(verb) support oneself | Synonyms: live, subsist, survive |
existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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(noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
existent | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existing |
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(adjective) being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory | Synonyms: real |
(adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: actual |
existential | (adjective) relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) | - |
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(adjective) of or as conceived by existentialism | - |
(adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: experiential |
existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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existentialist | (adjective) relating to or involving existentialism | - |
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(noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
existing | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existent |
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(adjective) presently existing | - |
(adjective) existing in something specified | - |