coexistence
[koh-ig-zis-tuh ns]
- 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
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Examples from the Web for coexistence
Contemporary Examples
There are supportive African (and African-American) clergy calling for coexistence rather than violence.
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 GraceMalcolm Jones
February 11, 2014
Inside the Beltway, a new term in the national agricultural debate was catching on: “coexistence.”
But Haifa has always been a lighthouse of Jewish-Arab coexistence, and a model of inclusive civil society.
The spiral design is a metaphor of change and transition, a celebration of the coexistence of past and future.
Historical Examples
Now coexistence is the existence of the manifold in the same time.
The Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant
The three modi of time are permanence, succession, and coexistence.
The Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant
Similarly, coexistence is a coexistence of states of two permanents.
Kant's Theory of KnowledgeHarold Arthur Prichard
It is one thing to note this coexistence and another to explain it adequately.
Benign StuporsAugust Hoch
Technically these uniformities have been divided into uniformities of Sequence and uniformities of Coexistence.
Logic, Inductive and DeductiveWilliam Minto
Word Origin and History for coexistence
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper