All 5 Uses
existential
in
The Fault in Our Stars
(Edited)
- The day of the existentially fraught free throws was coincidentally also my last day of dual leggedness.
p. 31.6existentially = concerned with meaning (or lack thereof) of life
- I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws.
p. 31.8 *
- There was this tunnel that these two kids kept crawling through over and over and they never seemed to get tired, which made me think of Augustus Waters and the existentially fraught free throws.
p. 41.9
- I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when Dr. Maria showed up on Friday morning, sniffed around me for a minute, and told me I was good to go.
p. 109.4existentialist = of existentialism -- a philosophical movement concerned with what is important in life
- Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren.
p. 217.5existential = relating to existentialism; a philosophical movement concerned with what is important in life
Definitions:
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(existential as in: existential threat) relating to or dealing with existence -- especially with human existence
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(existential as in: existential philosophy) Relating to existentialism — a philosophical movement where each person is free to determine their own meaning and purpose, not bound by convention, God, or authorityExistentialist belief is varied. All such beliefs stress the need for each individual to find their own way, but most stress that there is no rational way of finding it.
Atheistic existentialists often stress isolation of the individual in a hostile or indifferent universe. Some stress life without meaning. Others stress loss of a shared morality, uninhibited exercise of power, and/or hedonism.
Existentialism is often associated with philosophers and writers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, Sartre, Camus, Dostoevsky and Kafka. -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, in logic, an "existential quantifier" denotes the existence of a member in a set to which something is applicable. It is contrasted to a universal quantifier which applies to all members of a set. For example: "What is the scope of the existential quantifier?"