coexistence

[ koh-ig-zis-tuhns ]

/ ˌkoʊ ɪgˈzɪs təns /

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noun

the act or state of coexisting.

a policy of living peacefully with other nations, religions, etc., despite fundamental disagreements.

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Origin of coexistence

First recorded in 1640–50; co- + existence

OTHER WORDS FROM coexistence

co·ex·ist·ent, adjective

Words nearby coexistence

coevolution, coevolve, coexecutor, coexecutrix, coexist, coexistence, coextend, coextensive, coextrusion, cofactor, COFC

How to use coexistence in a sentence

As I read these messages of solidarity, I realized the mental health hospital is an island of sanity, inside a country that has turned into a mad house, and that within the walls of the locked ward, coexistence was still possible.
Israel Is Bleeding From Within. Restoring the Peace Shouldn't Mean a Return to the Way We Lived Before|Ayelet Gundar-Goshen|May 17, 2021|Time
Anger, grief, urge for revenge—we must be able to overcome these, if we ever want to establish true coexistence in this land.
Israel Is Bleeding From Within. Restoring the Peace Shouldn't Mean a Return to the Way We Lived Before|Ayelet Gundar-Goshen|May 17, 2021|Time
The mission statement’s conclusion branded communism “the single greatest threat” to liberty, emphasized that the United States “should stress victory over, rather than coexistence with, this menace” and endorsed an America First foreign policy.
Conservatives have long embraced ‘cancel culture’|Lauren Lassabe|April 16, 2021|Washington Post
It led me to a journey of realizing the universality of our coexistence, not only with our mothers, but mother earth.
A Leading NYC Mayoral Candidate Thinks Roof Farms Can Save America’s Cities|Amanda Kludt|January 14, 2021|Eater

The researchers conclude that the water’s behavior as it was heated and cooled could be explained by the coexistence of two different molecular arrangements, as previously predicted.
A stop-motion experiment reveals supercooled water’s dual nature|Emily Conover|September 28, 2020|Science News
There are supportive African (and African-American) clergy calling for coexistence rather than violence.
The Uganda Ruling is Good For Everyone But Gays|Jay Michaelson|August 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There could only have been a coexistence with her former celebrity.
Shirley Temple Survived Being the Biggest Child Star of All Time With Wit and Grace|Malcolm Jones|February 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This makes peaceful coexistence difficult, if not impossible.
Saudi Textbooks Incite Hate, Say Leaders in American Publishing|Robert L. Bernstein, Harold Evans, Larry Kirshbaum, Adam Bellow, Larry Hughes, Andre Schiffrin, Jonathan Karp|October 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Outright repression gave way to a tense, but pragmatic coexistence between the clergy and the comandantes.
Castro May Rejoin Catholic Church, Say Rumors in the Italian Press|Mac Margolis, Barbie Latza Nadeau|February 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Inside the Beltway, a new term in the national agricultural debate was catching on: “coexistence.”
Obama’s Organic Game|Eve Conant|October 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST
We prove the existence of a thing, by proving that it is connected by succession or coexistence with some known thing.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
To this we have now to add, that every proposition by which anything is asserted of a Kind, affirms an uniformity of coexistence.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
Among the uniformities of coexistence which exist in nature, may hence be numbered all the properties of Kinds.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
Besides uniformities of succession, which always depend on causation, there are uniformities of coexistence.
Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic|William Stebbing
The empirical laws of society are uniformities, either of coexistence, or of succession.
Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic|William Stebbing