existentialism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

French existentiel

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.

Latin -ismusbor.

French -isme

French existentialismebor.

English existentialism

Borrowed from French existentialisme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪzəm/

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Noun

existentialism (countable and uncountable, plural existentialisms) (philosophy)

1. (uncountable) A 20th-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. (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 Sep, Mikel Dufrenne, “Existentialism and Existentialisms”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 26, number 1, page 51:

     Instead of Existentialism, we should speak of Existentialisms.

Antonyms

• noumenalism

Related terms

• exist
• existence
• existential
• existentialist

Translations

philosophical movement

• Arabic: وُجُودِيَّة f (wujūdiyya)
• Armenian: էքզիստենցիալիզմ (ēkʻzistencʻializm)
• Bengali: অস্তিত্ববাদ (bn) (ostittobad)
• Bulgarian: екзистенциализъм m (ekzistencializǎm)
• Burmese: ဖြစ်တည်မှုပဓာနဝါဒ (hpractanyhmu.pa.dhana.wada.)
• Catalan: existencialisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 存在主義 / 存在主义 (zh) (cúnzàizhǔyì)

• Czech: existencialismus m
• Danish: eksistentialisme c
• Dutch: existentialisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: ekzistadismo
• Finnish: eksistentialismi (fi)
• French: existentialisme (fr) m
• Galician: existencialismo (gl) m
• Georgian: ეგზისტენციალიზმი (ka) (egzisṭencializmi)
• German: Existentialismus (de) m
• Greek: υπαρξισμός (el) m (yparxismós)
• Icelandic: tilvistarstefna
• Irish: eiseachas m
• Italian: esistenzialismo (it) m
• Japanese: 実存主義 (ja) (jitsuzonshugi)
• Kazakh: экзистенциализм (ékzistensializm)
• Korean: 실존주의(實存主義) (siljonjuui)
• Latvian: eksistenciālisms m
• Lithuanian: egzistencializmas (lt) m
• Macedonian: егзистенцијали́зам m (egzistencijalízam)
• Malay: faham kewujudan, eksistensialisme
• Malayalam: അസ്തിത്വവാദം (astitvavādaṁ)
• Maltese: eżistenzjaliżmu m
• Persian: هستی‌گرایی (hasti-gerâyi), اگزیستانسیالیسم (fa) (egzistânsiâlism)
• Polish: egzystencjalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: existencialismo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਅਸਤਿਤਵਵਾਦ (pa) m (asatitvavād)
• Romanian: existențialism (ro) n
• Russian: экзистенциали́зм (ru) m (ekzistencialízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: egzistencijalìzam (sh) m
• Slovak: existencializmus
• Spanish: existencialismo (es) m
• Swedish: existentialism (sv) c
• Thai: อัตถิภาวนิยม (àt-tì-paa-wá-ní-yom)
• Turkish: varoluşçuluk (tr), egzistansiyalizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: екзистенціалізм m (ekzystencializm)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa hiện sinh, thuyết hiện sinh
• Welsh: dirfodaeth f

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French existentialisme.

Noun

existentialism c

1. (philosophy) existentialism

   Synonym: existentialfilosofi

Declension

Declension of existentialism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	existentialism	existentialisms
	definite	existentialismen	existentialismens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• existens
• existera
• existentialist
• existentialistisk
• existentiell