Definition of existentialist
:an adherent of existentialism
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Yes, it's named for the French existentialist philosopher.
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The 1965 French New Wave film, by director Jean-Luc Godard, is a hybrid of film noir and existentialist road movie in garish Technicolor.
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Of getting lost in who people think you are!’ A prizefighter’s journey is an existentialist ideogram for life, and the real fight, the real fifteen rounds, occurs in the heart, at home.
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Clibanoff seems the romantic, hopeful one here; Emmons the existentialist.
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The works avoid direct protest and instead offer symbolic narratives that tell wide-ranging existentialist stories.
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An existentialist’s driving concern is human freedom and the responsibilities and anxieties that are inseparable from it.
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First Known Use of existentialist
1930
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Definition of existentialist
:of or relating to existentialism or existentialists
First Known Use of existentialist
1895
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