| Meaning | The way something is with respect to its main attributes. |
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| Examples | - "the current state of knowledge"
- "his state of health"
- "in a weak financial state"
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| Narrower | action, activity, activeness | The state of being active |
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| being, beingness, existence, face of the earth | The state or fact of existing |
| cleavage | The state of being split or cleft |
| condition, status | A state at a particular time |
| condition | A mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing |
| conditionality | The state of being conditional |
| conflict | A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests |
| damnation, eternal damnation | The state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell |
| dead letter, non-issue | The state of something that has outlived its relevance |
| death | The absence of life or state of being dead |
| degree, level, stage, point | A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process |
| dependence, dependance, dependency | The state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else |
| disorder | A disturbance of the peace or of public order |
| dystopia | state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror |
| employment, employ | The state of being employed or having a job |
| end, destruction, death | A final / final / final state |
| enlargement | The state of being enlarged |
| feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
| flux, state of flux | A state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action |
| freedom | The condition of being free |
| grace, saving grace, state of grace | (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God |
| ground state | (physics) the lowest energy state of an atom or other particle |
| heterozygosity | The state of being heterozygous |
| homozygosity | The state of being homozygous |
| hostility, enmity, antagonism | A state of deep-seated ill-will |
| illumination | The degree of visibility of your environment |
| immaturity, immatureness | not having reached maturity |
| imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency, forthcomingness | The state of being imminent and liable to happen / happen / happen soon |
| imperfection, imperfectness | The state or an instance of being imperfect |
| inaction, inactivity, inactiveness | The state of being inactive |
| integrity, unity, wholeness | An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting |
| isomerism | The state of being an isomer |
| kalemia | The presence of excess potassium in the circulating blood |
| maturity, matureness | state of being mature / mature |
| medium | A state that is intermediate between extremes |
| merchantability | The state of being fit for market |
| motion | A state of change |
| motionlessness, stillness, lifelessness | A state of no motion / motion or movement |
| nationhood | The state of being a nation |
| neotony | The state resulting when juvenile characteristics / characteristics are retained by the adults of a species |
| nonbeing | The state of not being |
| obligation | The state of being obligated to do or pay something |
| office, power | (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power |
| omnipotence | The state of being omnipotent |
| omniscience | The state of being omniscient |
| order | Established customary state (especially of society) |
| ornamentation | The state of being ornamented |
| ownership | The state or fact of being an owner |
| paternity | The state of being a father |
| perfection, flawlessness, ne plus ultra | The state of being without a flaw or defect / defect / defect / defect |
| plurality | The state of being plural |
| polyvalence, polyvalency, multivalence, multivalency | (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two |
| polyvalence, polyvalency | (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism |
| readiness, preparedness, preparation | The state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) |
| receivership | The state of property that is in the hands of a receiver |
| relationship | A state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection) |
| relationship | A state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries |
| representation, delegacy, agency | The state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent |
| revocation, annulment | The state of being cancelled or annulled |
| separation | The state of lacking unity |
| situation, state of affairs | The general state of things |
| skillfulness | The state of being cognitively skillful |
| status, position | The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society |
| technicality | The state of being technical as in the use of technical terms or methods |
| temporary state | A state that continues for a limited time |
| tribalism | The state of living together in tribes |
| turgor | (biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane |
| unemployment | The state of being unemployed or not having a job |
| union, unification | The state of being joined or united or linked |
| utilization | The state of having been made use of |
| utopia | ideally perfect state |
| wild, natural state, state of nature | A wild primitive state untouched by civilization |
| Broader | attribute | An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity |
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| Spanish | estado |
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| Catalan | estat |
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