existential

Of or relating to existence.

• Most of the subjects had terminal cancer, and several died within a year after the trial—but not before having a mental adventure that appeared to have eased the existential gloom of their last days.

Of or relating to existence.; Concerning the very existence of something, especially with regard to evading extinction.

• an existential risk or threat

Of or relating to existence.; Of an assertion, etc.: assuming or suggesting the existence of something.

• In recent books on logic, distinction is made between two orders of inquiry concerning anything. First, what is the nature of it? how did it come about? what is its constitution, origin, and history? And second, What is its importance, mean

Of or relating to existentialism (“a philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices”).

• Some existential thinkers are concerned with artistic expression only indirectly, that is, they are passionately interested critics and analysts of art works.

Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence (for example, there is).

Ellipsis of existential clause (“a clause that indicates the existence of something”).abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

• In classical accounts of Finnish and Estonian grammar, the possibility of using the so-called partitive subject has been one definitional criterion for the category of existential clauses. […] We argue that existentials form a radial catego

Ellipsis of existential type (“in a type system: a type that hides the underlying concrete type(s)”).abbreviationalt-ofellipsis