Existentialism

//ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪzəm// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices. uncountable

    "The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century."

  2. 2
    (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves wordnet
  3. 3
    The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement. countable

    "Sartre's existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian."

Etymology

Borrowed from French existentialisme.

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