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presentity

noun

Etymology

Blend of presence + entity; first introduced in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETC) RFC 2778.

  1. borrowed from entitās
  2. compounded as presentity — “presence + entity”

Definitions

  1. An entity (usually a human) which provides information about its presence (whether it is…

    An entity (usually a human) which provides information about its presence (whether it is available and willing to communicate through communication services).

    • Users of an instant messaging service are presentities that may show themselves as online, offline, or away.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for presentity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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