| Main Entry: | existence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life |
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actuality, animation, being, breath, continuance, continuation, duration, endurance, entity, essence, hand one is dealt, individuality, journey, lifing, permanence, perseverance, presence, rat race, real world, reality, something, subsistence, survival, the big game, world |
Antonyms: |
death, inanimateness |
| Concept: | Existence. |
| Category: | 1. BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT |
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-nouns
existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence, reality, actuality; positiveness; fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth; actual existence., presence (existence in space); coexistence., stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream; no joke., center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle [science of existence], ontology.
-verbs
exist, be; have being; subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur (event); have place, prevail; find oneself, pass the time, vegetate., consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by., come into existence; arise (begin); come forth (appear)., become (be converted); bring into existence., abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay.
-adjectives
existing existent, under the sun; in existence; extant; afloat, afoot, current, prevalent; undestroyed., real, actual, positive, absolute; true; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential., well-founded, well-grounded; unideal, unimagined; not potential; authentic.
-adverbs
actually; in fact, in point of fact, in reality; indeed; de facto, ipso facto.
-phrases
ens rationis; ergo sum cogito ["I think therefore I am" (Latin)]; "thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?" [Byron].
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Antonyms: |
inexistence |
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| Main Entry: | entity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object that exists |
Synonyms: |
article, being, body, creature, existence, individual, item, material, matter, organism, presence, quantity, single, singleton, something, stuff, subsistence, substance, thing |
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abstract, concept, idea |
| Main Entry: | entity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nature of a being |
Synonyms: |
actuality, essence, existence, integral, integrate, quiddity, quintessence, reality, subsistence, substance, sum, system, totality |
Antonyms: |
abstract |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, forebearance, intimacy, involvement, inwardness, judgment, know-how, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, worldliness |
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ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
| Main Entry: | identity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's individuality |
Synonyms: |
character, circumstances, coherence, distinctiveness, existence, identification, integrity, ipseity, name, oneness, particularity, personality, self, selfdom, selfhood, selfness, singleness, singularity, status, uniqueness |
| Main Entry: | individual |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | singular person, thing |
Synonyms: |
being, body, character, child, creature, dude*, entity, existence, human being, man, material, matter, mortal, number, party, person, personage, self, singleton, somebody, something, soul, stuff, substance, type, unit, woman |
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group |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being |
Synonyms: |
animal, animateness, animation, body, breath, consciousness, continuance, creature, endurance, entity, essence, existence, flesh, flesh and blood, growth, human, human being, individual, living, living being, living thing, man, metabolism, mortal, mortal being, organism, person, personage, presence, soul, subsistence, substantiality, survival, symbiosis, viability, vital spark, vitality, wildlife, woman |
Antonyms: |
death, inanimacy |
| Main Entry: | lifetime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | span of animate being's existence |
Synonyms: |
all one's born days, career, continuance, course, cradle to grave, days, endurance, existence, life, life span, natural life, period, time |
| Main Entry: | living |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lifestyle; source of income |
Synonyms: |
alimentation, bread and butter, existence, income, job, keep*, livelihood, maintenance, means, mode, occupation, salt, subsistence, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, way, work |
Antonyms: |
entertainment, fun |