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

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche