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Meanings of existential in English

Derived from experience or the experience of existence.

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Philosophical doctrine.

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Examples for "experiential"
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Please understand, however, that this is an event that requires experiential contact.
Wired
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One rich and untapped source of experiential material is your Extended Family.
Sorry Please Thank You: Stories
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It's difficult to describe the work, because it's such an experiential thing.
The Irish Times
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Psychopathic traits related positively to experiential emotion deficits across the two disorders.
Pubmed
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As part of experiential learning, we need to state clearly what went wrong.
The South African

Existential.

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Usage of existential in English
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But plunge Europe into existential crisis and it suddenly seems to matter.
The Irish Times
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In this existential crisis, Ireland did not take its lead from Britain.
The Irish Times
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Declarations that the union is facing an existential crisis are not new.
The Irish Times
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Clarke described legal aid as in the grips of an existential crisis.
The Guardian
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It was a global problem, an existential threat, with sweeping economic implications.
The Guardian
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It will be an existential choice, said French liberal MEP Sylvie Goulard.
Reuters
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And is it causing an existential threat? he said in the interview.
Reuters
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If you ever want to have an existential moment, that's the time.
The Guardian
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For some members of the group, the fight is an existential one.
Reuters
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Photo: 123rf.com Media coverage of the post-election period echoes this existential angst.
Radio NZ
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In other words, the DTCC realizes that it's embracing an existential threat.
Wired
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Faesal had said before being detained that Kashmir faced an existential battle.
The Guardian
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Instagram From both a legal and existential viewpoint, that argument is correct.
Wired
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The EU has grown up and passed its first big existential test.
The Guardian
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It seems that modern pop earworms are built on such existential questions.
The Irish Times
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That quest, Milner and the signatories hoped, would answer that existential query.
Wired
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Ireland
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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