Word info

existentially

Adverb

Meaning

existentially (comparative more existentially, superlative most existentially)

In an existential manner

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . . Walter Lippmann

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. Kay Redfield Jamison

What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. Roland Barthes

The crucial question which confronts us in psychology and other aspects of the science of man is precisely this chasm between what is abstractly true and what is existentially real for the given living person. Rollo May

He found in the narcotic night world a kind of modern counterpart to the gothic castle - a zone of peril to be symbolically or existentially crossed. Nancy Peters

Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it. Susan Orlean

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