existentialist

American  

[eg-zi-sten-shuhl-ist, ek-si-] / ˌɛg zɪˈstɛn ʃəl ɪst, ˌɛk sɪ- /

adjective

1. of or relating to existentialism.

2. relating to concerns about one's own existence or survival; existential.

3. affirming or celebrating existence.

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noun

1. someone adhering to existentialism.

Example Sentences

“I realise it’s quite an existentialist bunch of songs, with titles like ‘Are We There Yet?’ and ‘A Hundred Years or More,’” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

The film scandalised the American public and was banned in some US states, while the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir hailed her as an icon of "absolute freedom".

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

As an old-school existentialist, I just go through life with a certain detached, fun, irony.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2023

The draft feels like a café napkin sketch: schematic and brutally declamatory — the dialogue a parody of existentialist theater shouted through a bullhorn.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2023

It is hard to imagine a solitary, independent, existentialist minnow, recognizable for himself alone; minnows in a school behave like interchangeable, identical parts of an organism.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas