existentialist 1
noundomain: person
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
Hypernym
philosopher 1
noun
a specialist in philosophy
Instance_Hypernym
Beauvoir 1
noun
French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)
Camus 1
noun
French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)
Heidegger 1
noun
German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976)
Sartre 1
noun
French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980)
EnglishDerivationally related form
existentialism 1
noun
(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
Instance_Hyponym
Beauvoir 1
noun
French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)
Camus 1
noun
French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)
Heidegger 1
noun
German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976)
Sartre 1
noun
French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980)
