Thesaurus: existence

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1. n. 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.
2. n. Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war.
3. n. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.
4. n. the state or fact of existing
5. n. everything that exists anywhere
6. 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. The main object of our existence. Lubbock. 2. Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war. 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. 3. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.
7. n:100 n the state or fact of existing n everything that exists anywhere