exist
verbEtymology
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.
- derived from *stísteh₂ti✻
- derived from exsisto
- derived from exister
Definitions
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: […]
- […], regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
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.
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.
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