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existence

noun
/ɛɡˈzɪs.təns/US

Etymology

From Middle English existence, from Old French existence, from Late Latin existentia (“existence”), from existēns, from existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist”), 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”). Cognate with Spanish existencia, French existence, German Existenz. Morphologically exist + -ence.

  1. derived from *stísteh₂ti✻
  2. derived from existentia
  3. derived from existence
  4. inherited from existence

Definitions

  1. The state of being, existing, or occurring

    The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.

    • In order to destroy evil, we must first acknowledge its existence.
    • Fortunate it is for the tranquillity of the new-born infant, if he have any turn for philosophy, that he understands none of the nonsense consecrated by old usage to the commencement of existence.
    • However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

  2. Empirical reality

    Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)

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Derived

bane of someone's existence, co-existence, coexistence, existenceless, inexistence, in existence, non-existence, nonexistence, postexistence, preexistence, self-existence, three marks of existence, timeless existence, unexistence, waste of existence

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at existence. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at existence. 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 existence

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