Definition of existentialist
: an adherent of existentialism
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His philosophy has been adopted by Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, Muslims, everyone from New Age thinkers to existentialists like Jean Paul Sartre, folks at odds with one another but sharing an attraction to his cosmic vision.
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No Exit Real Art Daily Productions stages Sartre's existentialist fable about three strangers locked in a room together for all eternity.
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Bakewell’s history, one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2016, serves as a collective biography of a half-dozen preeminent existentialist philosophers, including Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir.
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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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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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