| 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 |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's experiences |
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attainment, behavior, circumstances, conduct, development, enjoyment, enlightenment, growth, hand one is dealt, happiness, human condition, journey, knowledge, lifestyle, participation, personality, realization, suffering, trials and tribulations, vicissitudes, way of life, world |
| Main Entry: | lot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, destiny |
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Moirai, accident, break, breaks, chance, circumstance, decree, doom, foreordination, fortune, hand one is dealt, hazard, karma, kismet, plight, portion, predestination, run of luck, way cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
above ground, aerobic, agamic, agrestian, alive, all alive and kicking, anaerobic, animated, archesporial, autacoidal, azzardly, bacillary, basal, bimanous, biodegradable, biomorphic, bionomic, biped, bircrural, blissom, breathing, celative, crepitous, cryptic, dacryopyostic, deglutitious, diallel, digenous, digoneutic, ditokous, diurnal, dizygotic, edentate, endothermic, epigamic, exogenous, gamic, haploid, hematic, hyperosmic, impar, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, indefatigable, lively, living, luxuriant, mammillated, marine, mercurial, metapneustic, microsmatic, motor, multilocular, muriform, myogenic, nizzertit, on this side of the grave, oviparous, ovoviviparous, palamate, paratonic, parthenic, parturient, pelagic, promethean, quick, rank, recuperated, refreshed, refreshing, ruttish, sedentary, sphygmic, spodogenous, stenobathic, tenacious of life, totipotent, untired, unwearied, urled, vegete, vital, vivacious, vivified, vivifying, yeld, zoetic
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| Concept: | Existence. |
| Category: | 1. BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT |
Synonyms: |
-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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| Concept: | Life. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; vitality in general |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit., respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; lifeblood; Archeus; existence., vivification; oxygen; vital air, vital force; vitalization; revivification; Prometheus; life to come (destiny)., [Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology., nourishment, staff of life (food) [more].
-verbs
be alive; live, breathe, respire; subsist (exist); walk the earth; "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be spared., see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life., give birth to (produce); bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate (restore); keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life., have nine lives like a cat.
-adjectives
living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively (active); all alive and kicking; tenacious of life., vital, vitalic; vivifying, vivified; viable, zoetic; Promethean.
-adverbs
vivendi causa.
-phrases
atqui vivere militare est [Seneca]; non est vivre sed valere vita [Martial].
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Antonyms: |
death |
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