English > face of the earth: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | The state or fact of existing. |
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| Synonyms | being, beingness, existence |
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| Attributes | existent, existing | Having existence or being or actuality |
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| nonexistent | not having existence or being or actuality |
| Narrower | actuality | The state of actually existing objectively |
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| animation, life, living, aliveness | The condition of living or the state of being alive |
| coexistence | Existing peacefully together |
| eternity, timelessness, timeless existence | A state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife |
| life | A characteristic state or mode of living |
| life | The course of existence of an individual |
| possibility, possibleness | capability of existing or happening / happening / happening or being true |
| preexistence | Existing in a former state or previous to something else |
| presence | The state of being present |
| subsistence | The state of existing in reality / reality |
| transcendence, transcendency | A state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience |
| Broader | state | The way something is with respect to its main attributes |
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| Opposite | nonbeing | The state of not being |
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| nonexistence, nonentity | The state of not existing |
| Spanish | existencia, ser |
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| Catalan | ésser, existència |
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