'Existence' definitions:
Definition of 'existence'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" [syn: being, beingness, existence] [ant: nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence]
noun
Definition of 'Existence'
From: GCIDE
- Existence \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. [1913 Webster]
- The main object of our existence. --Lubbock. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'existence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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