exist

verb
/ɛɡˈzɪst/

Etymology

From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.

  1. derived from *stísteh₂ti
  2. derived from exsisto
  3. derived from exister

Definitions

  1. to be

    to be; have existence; have being or reality

    • Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other
    • Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]
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The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exist. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01exist02existence03substance04substantiality05substantialness06substantial07real08nominal09existing

A definitional loop anchored at exist. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at exist

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA