existential

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ex=is=ten=tial

CIDE DICTIONARY

existential, a. 

•  Having existence.  [1913 Webster]
•  of or pertaining to, or having the character of, existentialism.  [PJC]
•  specifying actual existence, rather than only possibility; as, the existential operator.  [PJC]

  "Existentially as well as essentially intelligent."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

existential, adj.
1 of or relating to existence.
2 Logic (of a proposition etc.) affirming or implying the existence of a thing.
3 Philos. concerned with existence, esp. with human existence as viewed by existentialism.

Derivative

existentially adv.

Etymology

LL existentialis (as EXISTENCE)

THESAURUS

existential

Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, atomistic, cosmotheistic, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, sensationalistic, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic