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existential

adjective as in pertaining to existence

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Of course, considering how high the existential stakes seem to be in this election, it’s not out of the question that Biden might be the one who disputes the result.

Continued uncertainty about safety has become an existential threat for individual airlines, and is expected to upend the airline industry as we know it.

From Fortune

Failure to extend the search deal with Google could have been a potentially existential blow to Mozilla, which has laid off 320 employees since the beginning of the year.

We thought it may go away with the existential crises civilization is facing, but it is definitely a story of City Hall management failure and massive waste of taxpayer funds.

Under the right conditions, universal human traits like in-group favoritism, existential anxiety and a desire for stability and control combine into a toxic, system-justifying identity politics.

I often find myself in the toy aisle, having an existential crisis.

A creeping sense develops that Judy fled not just a stifling culture but a genuine existential threat.

Albert Camus used violence as a means of exploring meaning, or lack thereof, in his existential novels.

No one wants to go through life in a state of moral and existential ambiguity.

I had no interest in exploring the philosophical or existential layers of a cartoon show.

It is therefore necessary to differentiate between the Substance of Christianity and its Existential-form.

This distinction of indication as existential and implication as conceptual or essential, I owe to Mr. Alfred Sidgwick.

Meinong insists upon an existential judgment, a judgment that the object valued is real, as essential to value.

They are questions of the existential setting of certain logical distinctions and relations.

One passes at will from existential connexions of things to logical relationship of terms.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to existential, such as: experiential, empirical, factual, observational, observed, and pragmatic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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