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Synonyms & Antonyms of existential
- child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim believed that fairy tales help children cope with their existential anxieties and dilemmas
Synonyms for existential
- empirical
- (also empiric),
- experiential,
- experimental,
- objective,
- observational
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Near Antonyms for existential
Antonyms for existential
- nonempirical,
- theoretical
- (also theoretic),
- unempirical
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The first known use of existential was in 1656
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