existence
Other forms: existences
Existence is the state of being alive or being real. For example, you and your best friend disagree about the existence of Bigfoot if you think it's real and your friend doesn't.
The noun existence can be used many different ways, but it always has to do with being alive or with simply "being". You can talk about the survival of something as its existence, like your yo-yo club having lost so many members that its existence is in danger. The particular way you live is another meaning of existence; if you live a quiet, lonely life in the country, you could describe it as a solitary existence.
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the state or fact of existing“laws in existence for centuries”antonyms:nonexistencethe state of not existingtypes:actualitythe state of actually existing objectivelyeternity, timeless existence, timelessnessa state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlifepreexistenceexisting in a former state or previous to something elsecoexistenceexisting peacefully togethersubsistencethe state of existing in reality; having substancepresencethe state of being present; current existencelifethe course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in livinglifea characteristic state or mode of livingtranscendence, transcendencya state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experienceentelechy(Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentialitygenuinenessthe state of being genuinerealitythe state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to beubietythe state of existing and being localized in spaceomnipresence, ubiquitousness, ubiquitythe state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)herenessthe state of being here in this placetherenessthe state of being there--not here--in positiontherenessreal existenceoccurrencean instance of something occurringshadowa dominating and pervasive presenceskina person's skin regarded as their lifeghettoany segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotypingtype of:statethe way something is with respect to its main attributes
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everything that exists anywhere“the biggest tree in existence”types:closed universe(cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matternatural orderthe physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) lawsenvironment, nature(with 'the') the natural physical world including plants, animals, landscapes, etc.type of:natural objectan object occurring naturally; not made by man
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