Meaning of EXISTENCE
| Pronunciation: | | ig'zistuns
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- [n] everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"
- [n] the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries"
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EXISTENCE is a 9 letter word that starts with E. |
| | Synonyms: | | being, beingness, cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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| | Antonyms: | | nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence | | |
| | See Also: | | actuality, aliveness, animation, celestial body, coexistence, estraterrestrial body, eternity, extraterrestrial object, heavenly body, life, living, natural object, natural order, nature, possibility, possibleness, preexistence, presence, state, subsistence, timeless existence, timelessness, transcendence, transcendency | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex*ist"ence\, n. [Cf. F. existence.]
1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of
being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and
of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul;
immortal existence.
The main object of our existence. --Lubbock.
2. Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of
events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of
a state of war.
The existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but
another word for its being perceived, or for the
inferred possibility of perceiving it. --J. S. Mill.
3. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as,
living existences.
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| | Related Terms: | | accessibility, actual presence, actuality, an existence, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, availability, being, being alive, being here, being there, birth, body, continuance, continuation, creature, critter, duration, endurance, ens, entelechy, entity, essence, existent, fact, having life, hereness, immanence, immediacy, immortality, individual, individuality, indwellingness, inherence, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, monad, object, occurrence, organism, permanence, persistence, person, persona, personality, physical presence, presence, quiddity, reality, something, soul, spiritual presence, spriteliness, thereness, thing, ubiety, unit, viability, vitality, vivacity, whereness |
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