reason for existing
Why you're here
A reason for existing is what justifies or motivates someone's presence or purpose.
The phrase often carries existential weight: After the divorce, my kids became my reason for existing.
Organizations and institutions also have reasons for existing—their fundamental purpose or mission: The company's reason for existing is to make quality affordable.
The French *raison d'être* expresses the same idea with more philosophical flair.
- dutyRequired moral task
- meaningWhat something signifies
- utilityFunctional worth or purpose
- telosUltimate purpose or goal
- purposeReason something exists
ambition · raison d'être · passion · essence · responsibility · values · calling · self-actualization · function · legacy · making a difference · destiny · true north · ikigai · existentialism · necessity · transcendence · fulfillment
reason for existingpurposelessness
State of lacking intention
pointlessness · aimlessness · futility · existential void · directionlessness
reason for existingsubsistence
Minimal means of living
going through the motions · vegetating · survival mode · marking time · treading water
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