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existential

/eg-zi-sten-shuhl, ek-si-/US // ˌɛg zɪˈstɛn ʃəl, ˌɛk sɪ- //UK // (ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəl) //

存在性的,存在性,存在主义,存在主义的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to existence: Does climate change pose an existential threat to humanity?
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of philosophical existentialism; concerned with the nature of human existence as determined by the individual's freely made choices.

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Examples

  • Of course, considering how high the existential stakes seem to be in this election, it’s not out of the question that Biden might be the one who disputes the result.

  • Continued uncertainty about safety has become an existential threat for individual airlines, and is expected to upend the airline industry as we know it.

  • Failure to extend the search deal with Google could have been a potentially existential blow to Mozilla, which has laid off 320 employees since the beginning of the year.

  • We thought it may go away with the existential crises civilization is facing, but it is definitely a story of City Hall management failure and massive waste of taxpayer funds.

  • Under the right conditions, universal human traits like in-group favoritism, existential anxiety and a desire for stability and control combine into a toxic, system-justifying identity politics.

  • I often find myself in the toy aisle, having an existential crisis.

  • A creeping sense develops that Judy fled not just a stifling culture but a genuine existential threat.

  • Albert Camus used violence as a means of exploring meaning, or lack thereof, in his existential novels.

  • No one wants to go through life in a state of moral and existential ambiguity.

  • I had no interest in exploring the philosophical or existential layers of a cartoon show.

  • It is therefore necessary to differentiate between the Substance of Christianity and its Existential-form.

  • This distinction of indication as existential and implication as conceptual or essential, I owe to Mr. Alfred Sidgwick.

  • Meinong insists upon an existential judgment, a judgment that the object valued is real, as essential to value.

  • They are questions of the existential setting of certain logical distinctions and relations.

  • One passes at will from existential connexions of things to logical relationship of terms.