exigency
- n a pressing or urgent situation
the health-care exigency - n a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
exiguity
- n the quality of being meager
an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
exile
- n a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
- n a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
- n the act of expelling a person from their native land
men in exile dream of hope - v expel from a country
The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions
existence
- n the state or fact of existing
laws in existence for centuries - n everything that exists anywhere
the biggest tree in existence
existential operator
- n a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true
existential philosopher
- n a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
existential philosophy
- n (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
existential quantifier
- n a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true
existentialism
- n (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves