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Meaning of Existentialism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪzəm

Definitions

  1. A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
  2. The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.

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Examples

“The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.”
“Sartre's existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.”
“Instead of Existentialism, we should speak of Existentialisms.”

CEFR level

C2
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