existentialism
relating to existence or being alive:
The biggest existential threat to humans is probably still nuclear war.
This remote part of Western Australia represents a serious existential challenge.
As a young artist not knowing how to define himself, he faced an existential crisis.
There is no answer to that existential question.
French philosophers even described what the footballer had done as being an existential act.
The film could be described as an existential comedy.
He said that, though a serious concern, terrorism shouldn’t be thought of as an existential threat.
It's an exaggeration to say he poses an existential danger to democracy.
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