About The Word Entity
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Entity
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What's The Definition Of Entity?
[n] that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own physical existence (living or nonliving)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Entity: physical thing Related Terms | Find terms related to Entity: an existence | article | being | body | creature | critter | ens | entelechy | esse | essence | existence | existent | individual | integer | integral | integrate | item | life | material | materiality | matter | module | monad | object | occurrence | organism | person | persona | personality | point | presence | quantity | quiddity | quintessence | single | singleton | something | soul | stuff | subsistence | substance | substantiality | sum | system | thing | totality | unit See Also | anticipation | body of water | building block | causal agency | causal agent | cause | content | depicted object | enclosure | essential | expanse | imaginary place | inessential | location | matter | natural enclosure | necessary | necessity | nonessential | object | part | physical object | piece | requirement | requisite | sky | subject | substance | thing | unit | variable | water Entity In Webster's Dictionary \En"ti*ty\, n.; pl. {Entities}. [LL. entitas, fr. L. ens,
entis, thing, prop. p. pr. of esse to be: cf. F. entit['e].
See {Essence}, {Is}.]
A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or
in fact; being; essence; existence.
Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality.
--Shairp.
Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative
signification. --Bentley.
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