existentialism

Luis G. (United States of America)
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  1. existentialism
    a philosophy that assumes that people are entirely free
  2. Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980)
  3. voluptuous
    displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
  4. nuance
    a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
  5. nuisance
    anything that disturbs, endangers life, or is offensive
  6. encroaching
    gradually intrusive without right or permission
  7. debunk
    expose while ridiculing
  8. quaint
    attractively old-fashioned
  9. arbitrary
    based on or subject to individual discretion or preference
  10. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  11. contingent
    determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
  12. harem
    living quarters for wives in some Muslim households
  13. intelligible
    capable of being apprehended or understood
  14. contingency
    the state of being dependent on something
  15. deduce
    reason from the general to the particular
  16. gratuitous
    unnecessary and unwarranted
  17. impending
    close in time; about to occur
  18. bestow
    give as a gift
  19. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
Created on Fri May 08 19:06:44 EDT 2009 (updated Thu May 14 00:19:03 EDT 2009)

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