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    EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselvesplay

    Synonyms:

    existential philosophy; existentialism; existentialist philosophy

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("existential philosophy" is a kind of...):

    philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)

    Domain category:

    philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

    Domain member category:

    depersonalisation; depersonalization ((existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine)

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