existence
Origin of existence
Related Words for existence
continuation, survival, reality, world, presence, continuance, perseverance, individuality, being, subsistence, endurance, entity, breath, permanence, animation, essence, duration, actuality, journey, somethingExamples from the Web for existence
Contemporary Examples of existence
I am so sorry that your parents did this to you, developing their own discriminatory take on your existence.
That user's posts were being wiped completely from existence.
Beech-Nut is still in existence, and is the third largest baby food manufacturer in the United States.
The Flying Sorcery of Dr. Strange: Benedict Cumberbatch Is Marvel's Most Bizarre MagicianRich Goldstein
December 8, 2014
“What they are really doing is justifying their existence,” Banes said.
The cities of the heartland came into existence, first and foremost, as economic entities.
Historical Examples of existence
Paralus breathes and moves, but is apparently unconscious of existence in this world.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
To Kate, for instance, she was a necessity of existence, like light or air.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
Its calmness gave the impression of a wisdom behind it that had no existence.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
Built on fear and run by fear, fear is as essential to their existence as coal to our industries.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
My home life—if existence in a studio can be so called—was merry.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
existence
- the fact or state of existing; being
- the continuance or maintenance of life; living, esp in adverse circumstancesa struggle for existence; she has a wretched existence
- something that exists; a being or entity
- everything that exists, esp that is living
Word Origin and History for existence
late 14c., "reality," from Old French existence, from Medieval Latin existentia/exsistentia, from existentem/exsistentem (nominative existens/exsistens) "existent," present participle of Latin existere/exsistere "stand forth, appear," and, as a secondary meaning, "exist, be;" from ex- "forth" (see ex-) + sistere "cause to stand" (see assist).