existentially

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adverb

In an existential manner.

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Meanings

adverbexistentially (comparative more existentially, superlative most existentially)

comparative more existentially · superlative most existentially

  1. In an existential manner.

    Although I might have experienced being existentially out of place, the systems at work in my life have never sought to unhome me.

    2023, Helene Grøn, Asylum and Belonging through Collective Playwriting, page x
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    In this case though, anachoresis, departure from the world into the desert originally in Egypt and Palestine and later throughout Christendom, was a form of protest against the world, an expression of a radical craving of living in a more existentially authentic way the Christian spiritual values.

    2012, A. Green, V. Viaene, Religious Internationals in the Modern World, →ISBN

Origin

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APA

existentially. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/existentially

MLA

“existentially.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/existentially. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “existentially,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/existentially.

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