existentialist

Speech parts

1. existentialist - Noun

2. existentialist - Adjective

Meaning

a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable

relating to or involving existentialism

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

existential anarchist nihilistic nihilist ethicist metaphysician existential philosopher existentialist philosopher

Hypernyms

philosopher

Related terms

exist existence existential existentialism existentially existentialistically

Examples

I am a confectionery-based existentialist. Bill Bailey

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms-or, better, in existentialist terms. Rudolf Bultmann

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash. Chuck Palahniuk

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley. Evgeny Morozov

[on the fear of a nervous breakdown] I don't think I ever lost this fear. It turned me into a default existentialist by the time I was six: I quickly learned that the pursuit of happiness is largely pointless, happiness being the only target one merely has to aim at in order to miss. John Cooper Clarke

Close letter words and terms

existential therapy existential type existentialism existentialist anarchism existentialist anarchist existentialist philosopher