Dictionary of synonyms

Synonyms and antonyms of the word: existential

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Usage examples:

A deeply existential film, No Country for Old Men's themes include chaos, randomness, fate, chance, and circumstance.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/surprising-film-deaths-psycho-pulp-fiction/

AI is rightly considered an existential threat to a large number of occupations, for example market researchers, legal assistants, data analysts or customer service workers, that until now could only be carried out by humans.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/07/life-isnt-a-sci-fi-flick-ai-isnt-going-to-cause-the-apocalypse-18909431/

All of that has led to existential questions: can the UK afford a steel industry, and does it need one?

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/15/welsh-steelworks-at-breaking-point-over-the-cost-of-cleaning-up-its-act

All of the existential hand-wringing about decades of tanking interest in the game still applies.

Source: https://slate.com/culture/2023/03/major-league-baseball-rule-changes-opening-day.html?via=rss

And so I think this is to me an existential threat to our way of life.

Source: https://kmmsam.com/ixp/990/p/harmeet-dhillon-delivers-on-montana-speaking-tour/

And they won't take this existential threat sitting down.

Source: https://theweek.com/us/1024416/tesla-vs-car-dealerships

"As a chaplain, I serve on behalf of meaning, life, health and what is sacred, be it spiritual, religious, existential or scientific.

Source: https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2023/05/08/this-is-my-why-champions-of-stanford-medicine-hospitals/

A sane civilization should be able to discern that an 18-year-old with their identity crises and a 25-year-old with their midlife crises cannot be trusted with an automatic weapon, let alone a civilian with an existential crisis.

Source: https://ndsmcobserver.com/2023/09/the-u-s-can-still-be-saved/

As Cairo’s troops surged across the border, Israel’s prime minister, like Winston Churchill some 30 years earlier, knew that her country faced an existential threat.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12448589/Helen-Mirren-brilliantly-portrays-Golda-Meir-new-biopic-people-know-epic-story-woman-Israels-female-Prime-Minister-age-70.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

As Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg helped spare the former president’s real estate empire from its last existential threat, staving off insolvency after casino bankruptcies and an airline failure in the 1990s.

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/53d43c51495fd408?ref=ff

As Edwin continues to work on his mini-NASA project in his garage, one starts to think the narrative may zig into more cerebral, Shane Carruth-esque territory, but West smartly zags in favor of an emotional, existential wallop.

Source: https://thefilmstage.com/linoleum-review-jim-gaffigan-faces-an-existential-crisis-in-heartfelt-sci-fi-drama/

As with so many of the existential risks we face, such god-like tools require at least a Solomonic wisdom.

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23793819.can-rely-moral-force-field-stop-cloning-going-far/?ref=rss

At that time, an infamous statement announced that there was no existential threat to these islands from a foreign power and that, as none was anticipated for at least a decade, our defence budget should be scaled back.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11720389/How-Conservatives-let-vulnerable-attack-asks-GENERAL-SIR-RICHARD-SHIRREFF.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

But for those of us living now, Bennu can continue to be a source of wonder – rather than an existential threat.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/26/nasas-billion-dollar-asteroid-mission-thwarted-by-two-pesky-screws-19724848/

But perhaps the biggest challenge for the industry to reckon with is an existential one.

Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2023/12/31/sustainability/art-reckoning-sustainability/

Chatbots can now even help with and occasionally succumb to existential panic attacks in the process.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-removing-internet-explorer-from-pcs/

Chevron must meet the demands of Ugborodo community and other host communities on the implementation of the PIA and other existential matters.

Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/three-ugborodo-indigenes-feared-missing-in-alleged-navy-attack-on-protesters/

Deeply existential and overwhelmingly human, these stories provide the audience with a cathartic experience that comes at the end of a long journey of suffering.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/anime-sin-atonement-concept-fullmetal-alchemist-attack-on-tian/

Delegates and those who spoke at the convention were largely supportive of Trump, saying his indictment is illegitimate and that Joe Biden would present an existential threat to the country if he is reelected in 2024.

Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/11/georgia-republicans-pick-former-state-senator-josh/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

Dembosky said she thinks addressing climate change is “hopeless” and makes her feel a “very existential dread.”

Source: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2023/05/15/campus/turn-that-despair-into-hopefulness-students-and-experts-talk-climate-anxiety-potential-solutions/