Noun

(en noun)

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

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

(philosophy, countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.

Sartre's existentialism''' is atheistic, but the '''existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.

* 1965 , Mikel Dufrenne, "Existentialism and Existentialisms," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol 26 no 1 (Sep), p. 51.

Instead of Existentialism', we should speak of ' Existentialisms .

Noun

Hatred or dislike of people or mankind.

* 1817, , Author's Preface

Hence gloom and misanthropy have become the characteristics of the age in which we live, the solace of a disappointment that unconsciously finds relief only in the wilful exaggeration of its own despair.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

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