| NOUN | cognition | living, life | the experience of being alive |
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| group | living | people who are still living | |
| state | living, animation, life, aliveness | the condition of living or the state of being alive | |
| possession | living, support, keep, livelihood, bread and butter, sustenance | the financial means whereby one lives | |
| ADJECTIVE | pert | living | pertaining to living persons |
| all | living | true to life | |
| all | living | (informal) absolute | |
| all | living, surviving | still in existence | |
| all | living | still in active use | |
| all | living | (used of minerals or stone / stone) in its natural state and place |
| Sounds | lih'vihng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | pertaining to living persons. | |
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| Example | "within living memory" | |
| Nouns | living | people who are still living |
| Meaning | true to life; lifelike. | |
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| Example | "the living image of her mother" | |
| Broader | realistic | Aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are |
| Spanish | vivo | |
| Catalan | viu, vivent | |
| Meaning | (informal) absolute. | |
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| Broader | absolute | perfect or complete or pure |
| Usage of | colloquialism | A colloquial expression |
| intensifier, intensive | A modifier that has little meaning / meaning except to intensify the meaning / meaning it modifies | |
| Meaning | Still in existence. | |
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| Example | "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil" | |
| Synonym | surviving | |
| Broader | extant | Still in existence |
| Spanish | sobreviviente, viviente, vivo | |
| Catalan | supervivent | |
| Meaning | Still in active use. | |
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| Example | "a living language" | |
| Broader | extant | Still in existence |
| Meaning | (used of minerals or stone / stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried. | |
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| Example | "carved into the living stone" | |
| Broader | live | Exerting force or containing energy |
| Meaning | The experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities. | |
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| Synonym | life | |
| Broader | experience | The content of direct observation or participation in an event |
| Spanish | existencia, vida | |
| Catalan | existència | |
| Verbs | live | lead a certain kind of life |
| Meaning | People who are still living. | |
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| Example | "save your pity for the living" | |
| Broader | people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
| Opposite | dead | People who are no longer living |
| Adjectives | living | pertaining to living persons |
| Meaning | The condition of living or the state of being alive. | |
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| Synonyms | animation, life, aliveness | |
| Attributes | alive, live | possessing life |
| dead | no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life | |
| Narrower | eternal life, life eternal | Life without beginning or end |
| skin | A person's skin regarded as their life | |
| survival, endurance | A state of surviving | |
| Broader | being, beingness, existence, face of the earth | The state or fact of existing |
| Spanish | animación, vida | |
| Catalan | animació | |
| Verbs | live | have life, be alive |
| Meaning | The financial means whereby one lives. | |
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| Synonyms | support, keep, livelihood, bread and butter, sustenance | |
| Narrower | comforts, creature comforts, amenities, conveniences | things that make you comfortable / comfortable and at ease |
| maintenance | means of maintenance of a family or group | |
| meal ticket | A source of income or livelihood | |
| subsistence | minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting | |
| Broader | resource | available source of wealth |
| Spanish | manutención, sustentación, sustento | |
| Catalan | manutenció, sustentacle | |
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