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n. - A philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human life in a hostile universe as unexplainable adj. - Relating to or involving freedom of choice and personal responsibility.

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  • existentialist movement
  • Indeed, this is what it means to be an existentialist, which is just another word for nihilist.
  • The properly "existentialist" version of phenomenology is already in play.
  • Neither did his work lend itself to the kind of existentialist gloss that was chic in the 1950's.
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