existentialism

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Noun

existentialism (plural existentialisms)

1. (philosophy, not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.

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

2. (philosophy, countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.

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

   • 1965, Mikel Dufrenne, "Existentialism and Existentialisms," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol 26 no 1 (Sep), p. 51.

     Instead of Existentialism, we should speak of Existentialisms.

Antonyms

• noumenalism

Related terms

• exist
• existence
• existential
• existentialist

Translations

philosophical movement

• Arabic: وجودية (ar) (wujuudiyya) f
• Bulgarian: екзистенциализъм (bg) (ekzistencializǎm) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 存在主義 (cmn), 存在主义 (cmn) (cúnzàizhǔyì)

• Czech: existencialismus (cs) m
• Esperanto: ekzistadismo (eo)
• Finnish: eksistentialismi (fi)
• French: existentialisme (fr) m
• German: Existentialismus (de) m
• Greek: υπαρξισμός (el) (iparxismόs) m
• Icelandic: tilvistarstefna (is)
• Italian: esistenzialismo (it) m

• Japanese: 実存主義 (ja) (jitsuzonshugi)
• Korean: 실존주의 (ko) (siljonjueui)
• Lithuanian: egzistencializmas (lt) m
• Macedonian: егзистенцијализам (mk) (egzistencijalízam) m
• Persian: هستی‌گرایی (fa) (hasti-gerâyi), اگزیستانسیالیسم (fa) (egzistânsiâlism)
• Polish: egzystencjalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: existencialismo (pt) m
• Russian: экзистенциализм (ru) (ekzistencialízm) m
• Serbo-Croatian: egzistencijalìzam (sh) m
• Spanish: existencialismo (es) m
• Swedish: existentialism (sv) c
• Turkish: varoluşçuluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: екзистенціалізм (uk) (ekzystencializm) m

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Swedish

Noun

existentialism c

1. (philosophy) existentialism

Declension

Declension of existentialism

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	existentialism	existentialismen
genitive	existentialisms	existentialismens