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existentially

existentially adverb: in an existential manner.

Adverb

existentially (comparative more existentially, superlative most existentially)

  1. 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

comparativemore existentially
superlativemost 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

  1. existentiality
  2. existentialize
  3. existentialized
  4. existentializes
  5. existentializing
  6. existentially
  7. existentials
  8. existentiation
  9. existentiations
  10. existents
  11. Existenz

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