coexistence

[ koh-ig-zis-tuh ns ]

/ 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.

Nearby words

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

Origin of coexistence

First recorded in 1640–50; co- + existence

Related formsco·ex·ist·ent, adjective

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Examples from the Web for coexistence

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
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
But Haifa has always been a lighthouse of Jewish-Arab coexistence, and a model of inclusive civil society.
Israel's Inferno|Fania Oz-Salzberger|December 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST

The spiral design is a metaphor of change and transition, a celebration of the coexistence of past and future.
Wearable Art|Daily Beast Promotions|May 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST
It is resolved into the laws of the separate causes, together with the fact of their coexistence.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
The coexistence of the two nations in one and the same state, which the divine Plato had already described, is perpetuated.
Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History|Antonio Labriola
Technically these uniformities have been divided into uniformities of Sequence and uniformities of Coexistence.
Logic, Inductive and Deductive|William Minto
The relation between totemism and the practice of magic appears to be essentially one of coexistence in a community.
Introduction to the History of Religions|Crawford Howell Toy
Besides uniformities of succession, which always depend on causation, there are uniformities of coexistence.
Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic|William Stebbing

Word Origin and History for coexistence

coexistence

also co-existence, mid-15c., "joint existence;" see co- + existence. As "peaceful relations between states of different ideologies," 1954, a Cold War term.

coexistence

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