Both Uses of
existential
in
Into the Wild
- In 1977, while brooding on a Colorado barstool, picking unhappily at my existential scabs, I got it into my head to climb a mountain called the Devils Thumb.
p. 134..9existential = related to searching for meaning or direction in life
- McCandless wasn't some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair.
p. 184..5 *existential = related to searching for meaning in life
Definition:
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(existential as in: existential threat) relating to or dealing with existence -- especially with human existence