existentially
existentially adverb: in an existential manner.
Adverb
existentially (comparative more existentially, superlative most existentially)
- In an existential manner.
- 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
- 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
Forms of existentially
| comparative | more existentially |
|---|---|
| superlative | most existentially |
Origin of existentially
From existential + -ly.
Questions about existentially
- What does existentially mean?
- Existentially means in an existential manner.
- What part of speech is existentially?
- Existentially is an adverb.
Words near existentially in the dictionary
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