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existence

[ig-zis-tuhns]

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noun

the state or fact of existing; being.

continuance in being or life; life: a struggle for existence.

mode of existing: They were working for a better existence.

all that exists: Existence shows a universal order.

something that exists; entity; being.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin ex(s)istentia. See exist, -ence

Related forms

post·ex·ist·ence, noun

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Nevertheless, speculation continued over the existence of some form of life, in either the present or past.

Obviously, one cannot provide evidence for the non-existence of anything.

The very existence of this planet, however, is controversial.

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existence (ɪɡˈzɪstəns)

—n
1.	the fact or state of existing; being
2.	the continuance or maintenance of life; living, esp in adverse circumstances: a struggle for existence; she has a wretched existence
3.	something that exists; a being or entity
4.	everything that exists, esp that is living

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existence

late 14c., from O.Fr. existence, from L.L. existentem "existent," prp. of L. existere "stand forth, appear," and, as a secondary meaning, "exist;" from ex- "forth" + sistere "cause to stand" (see assist).

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"The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence."

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