existence

Definitions

1. The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
   countable, uncountable
2. stock; inventory
3. Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
   countable, uncountable
4. The fact or state of existing; being.
5. The fact or state of continued being; life: our brief existence on Earth.
6. All that exists: sang the beauty of all existence.
7. A mode or manner of existing: scratched out a meager existence.
8. Specific presence; occurrence: The Geiger counter indicated the existence of radioactivity.
9. the fact or state of existing; being
10. the continuance or maintenance of life; living, esp in adverse circumstances: a struggle for existence; she has a wretched existence.
11. something that exists; a being or entity
12. everything that exists, esp that is living
13. the state or fact of existing; being.

Equivalents

Examples

“In order⟳ to destroy⟳ evil, we must first acknowledge its existence.”

“Fortunate it is for the tranquillity of the new-born infant, if he have⟳ any turn⟳ for philosophy, that he understands none of the nonsense consecrated by old usage to the commencement of existence.”

“However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast⟳ off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.”

“The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.”

“The ancients said, “A ruler should exist⟳ for the existence of the people.” The famous thinker, Mencius noted, “The people are the most valuable, then the country, and the ruler comes last⟳.””

CEFR level