existence
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
existence/ɪɡˈzɪstəns/
▶noun
- 1 the fact or state of existing.
■ a way of living.
■ (in certain beliefs) any of a person's successive earthly lives.
- 2 archaic a being or entity.
– origin ME: from OFr., or from late L. existentia, from L. exsistere ‘come into being’.
'existence' also found in these Oxford entries:
absence
- acknowledge
- agnostic
- alive
- anamnesis
- anthropic principle
- anthropocentric
- appear
- astral
- atheism
- away
- bardo
- being
- believe
- bivalence
- bring
- chi
- cogito
- colour
- condition
- continue
- continuity
- corporality
- corporeity
- create
- cryptozoology
- dark star
- Dasein
- dawn
- deism
- demonstrate
- deny
- depth
- destroy
- detect
- dialectic
- diriment impediment
- dog
- doomsday
- egocentric
- electricity
- elicit
- emerge
- endure
- entity
- essentialism
- evanescent
- exist
- existent
