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Definition of Existential

1. Adjective. Derived from experience or the experience of existence. "Formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"

2. Adjective. Of or as conceived by existentialism. "An existential moment of choice"

3. Adjective. Relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence).

Definition of Existential

1. a. Having existence.

Definition of Existential

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to existence. ¹

2. Adjective. Based on experience; empirical. ¹

3. Adjective. (philosophy) Of, or relating to existentialism. ¹

4. Adjective. (linguistics) That part of a sentence indicating existence e.g. "there is". ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Existential

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Existential

1. Pertaining to a branch of philosophy, existentialism, concerned with the search for the meaning of one's own existence, that has been extended into existential psychotherapy. Origin: L. Existentia, existence (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Existential

exines exing exinitic exist existability existable existance existant existed existence

existenceless existences existencies existency existent existential (current term) existential crisis existential instantiation existential operator existential psychiatry

existential psychology existential psychotherapy existential quantifier existentialism existentialisms existentialist existentialist philosophy existentialistically existentialists existentially

Literary usage of Existential

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"EQUATIONS AND existential PROPOSITIONS WITH MANY UNKNOWNS. ... If (e + A)(f+5)(g+C)(l + I)).j, then by § 41 (5) the existential expression (2) adds nothing ..."

2. Welfare as an Economic Quantity by George Pendleton Watkins (1915)
"The situation of existential utility embodied in goods that are ... Once existential utility is separated (by abstraction) from processive utility, ..."

3. The Human Mind: A Treatise in Mental Philosophy by Edward John Hamilton (1883)
"Though propositions always state existential thought! and may be dwelt upon simply as doing so, we frequently conceive of them as having also this assertive ..."

4. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"This does not, however, make them existential judgments in the ordinary sense ; when we say " it lightens ! " we do not mean to predicate actuality of the ..."

5. Symbolic Logic by John Venn (1881)
"HAVING thus cleared the ground in respect of the general existential import of our propositions, we are now in a position to complete the discussion upon ..."

6. The Respective Standpoints of Psychology and Logic by Mathilde Castro (1913)
"There is for psychology a structural and existential discreteness, ... or tensional situation, in which reality assumes existential expression. ..."

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