Definitions for existential crisis
ex·is·ten·tial cri·sis

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1. existential crisisnoun

   A state of panic or feeling of intense psychological discomfort about questions of existence.

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1. Existential crisis

   An existential crisis is a moment at which an individual questions the very foundations of his or her life: whether his or her life has any meaning, purpose or value. This issue of the meaning and purpose of existence is the topic of the philosophical school of existentialism.

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of existential crisis in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of existential crisis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of existential crisis in a Sentence

1. Steffen Mau:

   Many people experienced unemployment, very long periods of insecurity or even existential crisis and the result of that is that they developed a habit of' keeping and defending' and are not willing to accept more social change, populism falls on fertile ground, people are very much willing to say' they defend what we have, they defend our culture, they defend our borders,'.

2. Logan Van Liempt:

   People live in a purely carnal physicality and therefore are unable to grasp abstract thought. Physical evidence of a non-physical force is impossible, and without objective philosophical truths, life is utterly meaningless. Due to these intellectual inabilities, rather than individuals using their collective will to seek absolute truth, they choose to be dependent on the materialistic world; rendering them trapped inside a state of existential-crisis.

3. Nick Parsons:

   We've had a 10 percent decline in six hours. That's simply extraordinary. And a vote to leave provides an existential crisis for Europe.

4. Nick Parsons:

   I'm one of the people who was here the last time we were trading at $1.35. It's back to the future, we're back to where we were in 1985, we've had a 10 percent decline in six hours. That's simply extraordinary. And a vote to leave provides an existential crisis for Europe.

5. Muriel MacDonald:

   This is a terribly frightening, existential crisis that demands a different course of action, if we play by the old rules, we are going to suffer terribly.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Existential_Crisis
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=existential crisis