Existence

Definition of Existence

Ex`ist´ence
n.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.

Related Words

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
Word:

Browse

Exhume
Exiccate
Exiccation
Exigence
Exigency
Exigendary
Exigent
Exigenter
Exigible
Exiguity
Exiguous
Exile
Exilement
Exilic
Exilition
Exility
Eximious
Exinanite
Exinanition
Exist
-Existence-
Existency
Existent
Existential
existentialism
Exister
Existible
Existimation
existing
Exit
exit poll
Exitial
Exmoor
Exo-
Exocardiac
Exocarp
Exoccipital
Exocetus
Exoculate
Exode
Exodic
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

© 2009 Interapple, Inc. Cover