raisons d'être
Reasons for existing
Raisons d'être is the plural of raison d'être, borrowed from French meaning "reason for being." These are the fundamental purposes that justify someone's or something's existence: The gallery's raisons d'être were education and preservation.
The phrase typically appears when multiple justifying purposes are being enumerated or questioned.
- purposeReason something exists
- ambitionDesire for achievement
- meaningWhat something signifies
- communityCollective of connected people
- driveOperate a vehicle
teleology · contribution · existentialism · essence · fulfillment · vocation · identity · core values · values · self-actualization · truth · ontology · authenticity · goals · passion · responsibility · existence · transcendence
raisons d'êtrepurposelessness
State of lacking intention
meaninglessness · pointlessness · aimlessness · futility · emptiness
raisons d'êtrehobbies
Leisure activities for pleasure
pastimes · diversions · trivialities · distractions · amusements
raisons d'êtreexistential void
Felt absence of meaning
nihilism · despair · anomie · ennui · spiritual emptiness
raison, reason, reasons, reasonable, reasonably, unreasonable, reasoning, reasoned