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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

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existentialism

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪzəm/

(not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.

In a Sentence

“The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.”

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Common Phrases

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Synonyms

existentialist philosophy

Antonyms

noumenalism

Related Words

axiologyindexicalismcontingentismontologyepiphenomenalismexpressivismexperientialism

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