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the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential attitude", or a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.

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Existentialists oppose definitions of human beings as primarily rational, and, therefore, oppose positivism and rationalism. Existentialism asserts that people actually make decisions based on subjective meaning rather than pure rationality

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Existentialism focuses on the individual and not that individuals connection to others. Ex: The terminals being next to each other even though they are 7 and 14

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More specifically, it is a loss of hope in reaction to a breakdown in one or more of the defining qualities of one's self or identity. Ex: when the one man was questioned by security to see if he was the same person. The word liar was written on his hand. This reflect a loss of hope in the man's self because he truly isn't a liar.

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A sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world. Too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.

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Philosophical thinking begins with the human subject and how they act, feel, and live.
Disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless, absurd world.

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shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human

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It the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject.
Each individual is solely responsible for giving meaning to life.

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Existentialism precedes  existence.

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-disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless, absurd world.
-the attempt to draw all the consequences from a position of consistent atheism.

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Existentialism conveys the idea that existence precedes essence, which means that the most important consideration for individuals is that they are individuals, rather than labels/roles/etc.