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The opposite could be any other philosophies that attribute meaning to existence.

Nihilism might be considered the opposite to existentialism, because existentialism is concerned with existence, obviously and what that imparts to us without definition. Nihilism is concerned with shaping existence, or even destroying it!

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To go a bit further, structuralism may also be the antithesis of existentialism:

Structuralism, at least in aesthetic theory, makes the claim that there is an overarching superstructure of ideas that exist inherently outside of human action. That is to say that one's actions do not dictate how things are. An example of this would be to say that the language exists independently of one speaking it. Another example would be that the rules of Baseball exist without the game actually being played. In other words, it denies that human choice and action are the sole constituents of existence. Thus, the freedom insisted upon by existentialism is thoroughly diminished.

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