Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun existentialism

1 sense of existentialism

Sense 1
existentialism, existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy -- ((philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves)
       => philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory -- (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)