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Definitions: Existential |
ExistentialAdjective1. 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. 2. Of or as conceived by existentialism; "an existential moment of choice". 3. Relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "existential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonym: ExistentialSynonym: experiential (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Existential |
| English words defined with "existential": existential operator, existential quantifier, experiential ♦ Heidegger ♦ Martin Heidegger. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "existential": existential competence, existential state ♦ polynomial hierarchy ♦ Second-Order Lambda-calculus, Skolem expression. (references) |
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Screenplays | Personally, I find most experiences border on the existential. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) Artists, they're pretty existential, huh. (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor) Existential Motifs in Russian Literature. (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) I'm a teleological, existential agnostic. (Sleeper; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | An Existential Affair (2002) | |
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| "Existential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.53% of the time. "Existential" is used about 215 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.53% | 214 | 20,696 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 215 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "existential": existential competence ♦ existential operator ♦ existential quantifier. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "existential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وجودي (beatnik, existentialist, pantheistic), خاص بالوجود. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 存在主义. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | eksistentielle relationer (existential references, existential relationship), eksistentiel skyldfoelelse (existential feeling of guilt), eksistentiel psychiatri (anthropological psychiatry, existential psychiatry), antropologisk psykiatri (anthropological psychiatry, existential psychiatry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مربوطبه هستی , وجودی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | existentiel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | existentiell. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπαρξιακόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | létezésen alapuló. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | esistenziale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 실존 (Existence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | existentialay sentimento de culpa existencial (existential feeling of guilt). (various references) экзистенциальный. (various references) relaciones existenciales (existential references, existential relationship). (various references) existentiell. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "existential": existentialism, existentialisms, existentialist, existentialistic, existentialistically, existentialists, existentially. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "existential": nonexistential. (additional references) | |
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"Existential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exastential, exestential, existantial, existencial, existentail, existwntial, exostential, exsistential, exstiential, extistential. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "existential" (pronounced e'ksi'ste"nkhul, e'ksi'ste"nshul, e'gzi'ste"nkhul , or e'gzi'ste"nshul) |
| 5 | -e" n kh u l | consequential, credential, deferential, differential, exponential, inconsequential, influential, nonessential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, residential, reverential, sequential, tangential, torrential. |
| 4 | -n kh u l | circumstantial, insubstantial, substantial. |
| 3 | -kh u l | bestial, celestial, hatchel, nuptial. |
| 6 | -t e" n sh u l | potential. |
| 5 | -e" n sh u l | confidential, essential, experiential, jurisprudential, nonresidential, quintessential. |
| 4 | -n sh u l | financial, interprovincial, nonfinancial, provincial. |
| 3 | -sh u l | antisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, commercial, controversial, crucial, facial, glacial, impartial, inertial, infomercial, initial, interracial, judicial, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonracial, official, palatial, partial, Paschal, prejudicial, prenuptial, racial, sacrificial, social, spatial, special, superficial, uncontroversial, unofficial. |
| 5 | -e" n kh u l | consequential, credential, deferential, differential, exponential, inconsequential, influential, nonessential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, residential, reverential, sequential, tangential, torrential. |
| 4 | -n kh u l | circumstantial, insubstantial, substantial. |
| 3 | -kh u l | bestial, celestial, hatchel, nuptial. |
| 6 | -t e" n sh u l | potential. |
| 5 | -e" n sh u l | confidential, essential, experiential, jurisprudential, nonresidential, quintessential. |
| 4 | -n sh u l | financial, interprovincial, nonfinancial, provincial. |
| 3 | -sh u l | antisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, commercial, controversial, crucial, facial, glacial, impartial, inertial, infomercial, initial, interracial, judicial, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonracial, official, palatial, partial, Paschal, prejudicial, prenuptial, racial, sacrificial, social, spatial, special, superficial, uncontroversial, unofficial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-n-s-t-t-x" | |
-1 letter: antielites. | |
-2 letters: antielite, anxieties. | |
-3 letters: alexines, alienist, anisette, entities, entitles, existent, intitles, laxities, lenities, lintiest, litanies, tetanies, tetanise, textiles. | |
-4 letters: alexine, alexins, antisex, elastin, elitist, entails, entitle, etesian, exilian, extents, instate, intitle, isatine, laities, lateens, latents, latexes, lattens, lattins, leanest, lineate, liniest, lisente, nailset, neatest, nettles, salient, saltine, satinet, setline, sextain, sextant, sextile, sienite. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-n-s-t-t-x" | |
+2 letters: existentially, externalities. | |
+3 letters: existentialism, existentialist, extensionality, intersexuality, nonexistential. | |
+4 letters: antisexualities, existentialisms, existentialists, experimentalist, extendabilities, externalisation. | |
+5 letters: exceptionalities, existentialistic, experimentalists, extensionalities, externalisations, externalizations, intersexualities, transsexualities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 69 73 74 65 6E 74 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- .. ... - . -. - .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x i s t e n t i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0069 0073 0074 0065 006E 0074 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3990758586718086756778 |
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