About The Word Existence

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Existence

Existence Meaning & Definition
Existence Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Existence?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Existence: being | beingness | cosmos | creation | macrocosm | universe | world

Related Terms | Find terms related to Existence: 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

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

Existence In Webster's Dictionary

\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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