Associations to the word «Existentialism»

Wiktionary

EXISTENTIALISM, noun. (philosophy) (not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
EXISTENTIALISM, noun. (philosophy) (countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.

Dictionary definition

EXISTENTIALISM, noun. (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke