Aeon vs Entity - What's the difference?
aeon | entity |
(AU, NZ, British)
* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=
, title=When Earth's Last Picture is Painted (L’Envoi to 'The Seven Seas')
, passage=When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,/ When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,/ We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,/Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew.}}
A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
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That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
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An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence.
(computing) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
The state or quality of being or existence.
* Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity --
As nouns the difference between aeon and entity
is that aeon is (au|nz|british) while entity is that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit often used for organisations which have no physical form.aeon
English
Noun
(en noun)entity
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(wikipedia entity)Noun
(entities)- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities .
- The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.