On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Existential. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as experiential or empirical and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Existential in a sentence
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Existential meaning
- Of or relating to existence.
- Concerning the very existence of something, especially with regard to evading extinction.
Synonyms of Existential
Existential vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Existential
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to existence. | Of or relating to existence. | Concerning the very existence of something, especially with regard to evading extinction.
- Useful related words include: experiential, empirical, empiric, philosophical doctrine.
- Possible Dutch translations are: existentieel.
- In the example corpus, existential often appears in combinations such as: an existential, existential threat, existential crisis.
Context around Existential
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Existential
- In this selection, "existential" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, order, german, main, threat, generalization and nihilism stand out and add context to how "existential" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a deeply existential film no and also have existential generalization axiom. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "existential" sits close to words such as consultants, inmate and oversees, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with existential
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And they won't take this existential threat sitting down. (10 words)
Aside from this, we can also have Existential Generalization: Axiom scheme for Existential Generalization. (14 words)
But perhaps the biggest challenge for the industry to reckon with is an existential one. (15 words)
Garland tells us that the goal of that was to make audiences feel different than a typical kind of monster attack scene – the monster is in a state of despair and pain; it’s an existential monster in an existential space. (41 words)
A sane civilization should be able to discern that an 18-year-old with their identity crises and a 25-year-old with their midlife crises cannot be trusted with an automatic weapon, let alone a civilian with an existential crisis. (41 words)
Critic Paul de Man notes, "Whatever Borges's existential anxieties may be, they have little in common with Sartre's robustly prosaic view of literature, with the earnestness of Camus' moralism, or with the weighty profundity of German existential thought. (40 words)
All of that has led to existential questions: can the UK afford a steel industry, and does it need one? (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
Garland tells us that the goal of that was to make audiences feel different than a typical kind of monster attack scene – the monster is in a state of despair and pain; it’s an existential monster in an existential space.
Aside from this, we can also have Existential Generalization: Axiom scheme for Existential Generalization.
Critic Paul de Man notes, "Whatever Borges's existential anxieties may be, they have little in common with Sartre's robustly prosaic view of literature, with the earnestness of Camus' moralism, or with the weighty profundity of German existential thought.
Existential nihilism main Existential nihilism is the belief that life has no intrinsic meaning or value.
Existential usage The English to be, and its equivalents in certain other languages, also have a non-copular use as an existential verb, meaning "to exist".
Quine argued that the only ontologically committing expressions are variables bound by a first-order existential quantifier, and natural language expressions which were formalized using variables bound by first-order existential quantifiers.
A deeply existential film, No Country for Old Men's themes include chaos, randomness, fate, chance, and circumstance.
AI is rightly considered an existential threat to a large number of occupations, for example market researchers, legal assistants, data analysts or customer service workers, that until now could only be carried out by humans.
All of that has led to existential questions: can the UK afford a steel industry, and does it need one?
All of the existential hand-wringing about decades of tanking interest in the game still applies.
And so I think this is to me an existential threat to our way of life.
And they won't take this existential threat sitting down.
A sane civilization should be able to discern that an 18-year-old with their identity crises and a 25-year-old with their midlife crises cannot be trusted with an automatic weapon, let alone a civilian with an existential crisis.
As Cairo’s troops surged across the border, Israel’s prime minister, like Winston Churchill some 30 years earlier, knew that her country faced an existential threat.
As Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg helped spare the former president’s real estate empire from its last existential threat, staving off insolvency after casino bankruptcies and an airline failure in the 1990s.
As with so many of the existential risks we face, such god-like tools require at least a Solomonic wisdom.
At that time, an infamous statement announced that there was no existential threat to these islands from a foreign power and that, as none was anticipated for at least a decade, our defence budget should be scaled back.
But for those of us living now, Bennu can continue to be a source of wonder – rather than an existential threat.
But perhaps the biggest challenge for the industry to reckon with is an existential one.
Chatbots can now even help with and occasionally succumb to existential panic attacks in the process.
Common combinations with existential
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an existential 89×
- existential threat 61×
- existential crisis 21×
- the existential 19×
- existential questions 8×
- of existential 7×
- existential threats 6×
- existential battle 5×
- existential challenge 4×
- more existential 4×