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Adjective: existential  ,eg-zi'sten-shul
  1. Relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
    "The philosopher's work focused on existential questions about the meaning of life"
     
  2. Derived from experience or the experience of existence
    "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters";
    - experiential
     
  3. Of or as conceived by existentialism
    "an existential moment of choice"

See also: empiric, empirical

Encyclopedia: Existential