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co⋅ex⋅ist⋅ence

  [koh-ig-zis-tuhns]
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–noun
1. the act or state of coexisting.
2. a policy of living peacefully with other nations, religions, etc., despite fundamental disagreements.
Origin:
1640–50; co- + existence

Related forms:
co⋅ex⋅ist⋅ent, adjective
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co·ex·ist   (kō'ĭg-zĭst')   
intr.v.   co·ex·ist·ed, co·ex·ist·ing, co·ex·ists
  1. To exist together, at the same time, or in the same place.
  2. To live in peace with another or others despite differences, especially as a matter of policy: "recognize and accept, as every President in the nuclear age has, that this means coexisting with the Soviet Union" (McGeorge Bundy).
co'ex·is'tence n., co'ex·is'tent adj.
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Coexistence

Co`ex*ist"ence\, n. Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence.

Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any condition. --Jer. Taylor.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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coexistence 
"peaceful relations between states of different ideologies," 1954, a Cold War term.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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