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Existential Crisis

"My youth is slipping away as time slips like a torrenting waterfall through my fingers towards inevitable death" -
Danisnotonfire who casually finds himself questioning the meaning of life in the hallway and/or staircase.
"He found himself having another existential crisis after questioning the meaning of his pointless life."
by onethiccpotato April 23, 2018
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Existential Crisis

A deep, obsessive concern with unanswered questions about the meaning of life and existence, resulting in the disruption of one's daily life and characterized by long or short-lasting bouts of apathy and depression.
"Dude, what's up with Steve?"
"He's been reading a lot of Nietzsche and watching How the Universe Works on the Discovery Channel, now he's having an existential crisis."
by Jimmy Banks November 28, 2012
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existential dead

Taking existential dread one step forward. The feeling when you're in a continuous existential crisis so you just go numb and "die" on the inside.

Just like you experience existential dread you also experience existential dead.
Sophie was in the final year of her STEM course and had realized that she would've been better off studying business but three years of chemistry had killed her on the inside and she was now going through existential dead.
by whackywizard May 27, 2021
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existential crisis

It's when you begin to question meaning of life; meaning of your existence
I'm having an existential crisis; Everyone I know is going to die....I'm so alone in the world.
by Amy Blaze February 14, 2015
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Existential Crisis

Realizing that life is meaningless, worthless, or at best, a shit sandwich.
With the Grexit looming Christine is having an existential crisis. Being a disingenuous creep, and not wanting to face the possibility that she is simply just a highly paid shit supplier to the world shit sandwich market, Christine does not opt to reform the accumulated rot of the IMF but opts instead to blame Greece.
by WeDontCall911 June 29, 2015
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Existential Crisis

An 'Existential Crisis' is when an individual questions the their entire existence and asks themselves whether being alive even has a point or whether it's all pointless. This gets in the way of everyday things such as, making cereal and listening to the next step soundtrack on repeat
'oh no, Emma can't make it today she's having an existential crisis'
by BigNose395 November 19, 2019
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existential vacuum

James was so caught up in an existential vacuum that he hung himself by his shoestrings
by Brian K November 26, 2003
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