existential
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin existentialis, exsistentialis (“coming into or relating to existence”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming nouns of verbal action). Existentialis, exsistentialis are derived from Late Latin existentia, exsistentia (“existence”) + Latin -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); and existentia, exsistentia from Latin existēns, exsistēns (“being, existing; appearing, emerging; becoming”) (the present active participle of existō, exsistō (“to be, exist; to appear, emerge; to become”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set; to halt, stop”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”))) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more existential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most existential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to existence.
pos: adj
examples: The third univerſal is appetite; every perfect and imperfect living creature acquires ſuſtenance to eate and drink. For exiſtential or ſenſual, I grant many, that there is a Sun that ſhineth, that the fire heateth, &c. yet a blind man and the Paralytick denies both.
[T]he essential cause of fiendish guilt, when it makes itself existential and peripheric— […] I find the only explanation of a moral phænomenon not very uncommon in the last moments of condemned felons—viz. the obstinate denial, not of the main guilt, which might be accounted for by ordinary motives, but of some particular act, which had been proved beyond all possibility of doubt, and attested by the criminal's own accomplices and fellow-sufferers in their last confessions: […]
Most of the subjects had terminal cancer, and several died within a year after the trial—but not before having a mental adventure that appeared to have eased the existential gloom of their last days.
gloss: Of or relating to existence.
pos: adj
examples: an existential risk or threat
[Karl] Jaspers' main concern has been with existential dread, which he regards not as a symptom of mental illness, but as a result of rejecting religious faith. He proposes that man's only way out of existential dread is through a "leap into faith" which reconciles man with himself and with God, and provides an experience of the absolute which transcends mere sense experience.
Here, therefore, we seek to assemble and assess the evidence to provide an overview of how serious trade is as an existential threat to avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia.
To [Elon] Musk, his vast fortune is a mere side effect of his ability not just to see but to do things others cannot, in arenas where the stakes are existential.
gloss: Of or relating to existence.
pos: adj
examples: In recent books on logic, distinction is made between two orders of inquiry concerning anything. First, what is the nature of it? how did it come about? what is its constitution, origin, and history? And second, What is its importance, meaning, or significance, now that it is once here? The answer to the one question is given in an existential judgment or proposition. The answer to the other is a proposition of value, what the Germans call a Werthurtheil, or what we may, if we like, denominate a spiritual judgment.
gloss: Of or relating to existentialism (“a philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices”).
pos: adj
examples: Some existential thinkers are concerned with artistic expression only indirectly, that is, they are passionately interested critics and analysts of art works.
gloss: Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence (for example, there is).
pos: adj
Related words: aseity
exist
existence
existent
Derived words: existential crisis
existential instantiation
existentialism
existentialist
existentialistic
existentialize
existentially
existential nihilism
existential quantifier
existential risk
nonexistential
singular existential statement
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: وُجُودِيّ
roman: wujūdiyy
lang: Belarusian
word: экзістэнцыя́льны
roman: ekzistencyjálʹny
lang: Bulgarian
word: екзистенциа́лен
roman: ekzistenciálen
lang: Catalan
word: existencial
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 存在性
roman: cúnzàixìng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 有關存在的 /有关存在的
lang: Czech
word: existenciální
lang: Czech
word: existenční
lang: Dutch
word: existentieel
lang: Esperanto
word: ekzista
lang: Finnish
word: eksistentiaalinen
lang: Finnish
word: olemassaoloa koskeva
lang: French
word: existentiel
lang: Galician
word: existencial
lang: Georgian
word: ეგზისტენციალური
roman: egzisṭencialuri
lang: German
word: existentiell
lang: Greek
word: υπαρξιακός
roman: yparxiakós
lang: Hebrew
word: קיומי
lang: Indonesian
word: eksistensial
lang: Indonesian
word: eksistensiil
lang: Italian
word: esistenziale
lang: Japanese
word: 実存的な
roman: jitsuzonteki na
lang: Korean
word: 실존적
roman: siljonjeok
lang: Macedonian
word: егзистенција́лен
roman: egzistencijálen
lang: Malay
word: eksistensial
lang: Maltese
word: eżistenzjali
lang: Polish
word: egzystencjalny
lang: Portuguese
word: existencial
lang: Romanian
word: existențial
lang: Russian
word: экзистенциа́льный
roman: ekzistɛnciálʹnyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: е̏гзистенција̄лан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȅgzistencijālan
lang: Slovak
word: existenčný
lang: Slovene
word: eksistencialen
lang: Spanish
word: existencial
lang: Turkish
word: varoluşsal
lang: Turkish
word: egzistansiyel
lang: Ukrainian
word: екзистенціа́льний
roman: ekzystenciálʹnyj