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adjective

existential

concerned with human existence and the search for meaning in it

In a sentence

Six example sentences with existential, each labelled with its topic.

  • The seminar spent a month on existential questions, arguing that a person is nothing more than the sum of their choices.

    Philosophy

  • Postwar novels put a clerk in an empty room and let him face existential dread with no comforting answer.

    Literature

  • The film stages an existential crisis in a diner, where a waitress asks why anyone bothers ordering breakfast.

    Movies

  • Existential therapists focus less on symptoms than on a client's questions about purpose, freedom, and choice.

    Psychology

  • The album's existential lyrics ask what a person owes to a life they never asked for, over cheerful ukulele chords.

    Music

  • The sculptor's thin walking figures carry an existential weight, each one alone even when placed in a crowd.

    Art

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