existential

existential
    adj 1: derived from experience or the experience of existence;
           "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the
           older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington; "formal
           logicians are not concerned with existential matters"-
           John Dewey [syn: {experiential}, {existential}]
    2: of or as conceived by existentialism; "an existential moment
       of choice"
    3: relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human
       existence)
    

Existential \Ex`is*ten"tial\, a.
   1. Having existence. [Archaic] --Bp. Barlow.
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   2. of or pertaining to, or having the character of,
      existentialism.
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   3. (Logic) specifying actual existence, rather than only
      possibility; as, the existential operator.
      [PJC] --{Ex`is*ten"tial*ly}, adv. [Archaic]
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            Existentially as well as essentially intelligent.
                                                  --Colerige.
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44 Moby Thesaurus words for "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