Dasein

//dɑː.zʌɪn// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Being; especially the nature of being; existence, presence, hereness, suchness, essence uncountable

    "Hereness (Dasein) might be perhaps be called more expediently, Now-Being (Jetztsein), ..."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of dasein. alt-of, alternative, uncountable

    "Even in its failure, National Socialism refused to allow the question of Being to become the overt and pervasive question of Germany. It ensured that Dasein would either quickly find itself in its everydayness in the task of the reconstruction of an occupied Germany or not find itself, in death."

Synonyms

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existencefacticity

Example

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"Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein."

Etymology

From German Dasein (“there-to be”), from da (“there”) + sein (“to be”).

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