Is “Existentialism” a Scrabble word?

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EXISTENTIALISM
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Meaning of Existentialism

/ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪzəm/

noun
  1. 1.(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. 2.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.