different between existentialism vs spirituality

English

Etymology

From existential +? -ism; borrowed from German Existentialismus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z??st?n??l?z?m/

Noun

existentialism (countable and uncountable, plural existentialisms)

1. (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.

2. (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.

Antonyms

• noumenalism

Related terms

• exist
• existence
• existential
• existentialist

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Swedish

Noun

existentialism c

1. (philosophy) existentialism

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle French spiritualité, from Late Latin spiritualitas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?.??.t?u?æ.l?.t?/

Noun

spirituality (countable and uncountable, plural spiritualities)

1. The quality or state of being spiritual.
   • , "The Ways of Wisdom are Ways of Pleasantness"

     a pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality

   • If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest unto spirituality.

   • 1841, Edward Bickersteth, A Treatise of Prayer

     Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come.

2. Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
3. Appreciation for religious values.
4. (obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.

   • During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof.

5. (obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.

   • Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality.

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