existential

existential

adjective

Definition of EXISTENTIAL

based on observation or experience <child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim believed that fairy tales help children cope with their existential anxieties and dilemmas>

Synonyms existential, experiential, experimental, objective, observational

Related Words actual, factual, genuine, hard, material, real; accepted, established, tried, tried-and-true; indisputable, undeniable; demonstrable, provable, verifiable

Near Antonyms conjectural, hypothetical, speculative; unproven, unsubstantiated; metaphysical, transcendentalist, visionary

Antonyms nonempirical, theoretical (also theoretic), unempirical