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Availability vs Existence - What's the difference?

availability | existence |

As nouns the difference between availability and existence

is that availability is the quality of being available while existence is the state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.

availability

English

Noun

(availabilities)
  • (chiefly, uncountable) The quality of being available.
  • What is your availability this week?
  • (countable) That which is available.
  • We have several availabilities .

    Synonyms

    * (quality of being available) availableness, accessibility

    Antonyms

    * (quality of being available) unavailability

    existence

    Noun

  • The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
  • *
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  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jeremy Bernstein)
  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=146, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= A Palette of Particles , passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
  • Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
  • Antonyms

    * nothingness

    Derived terms

    * nonexistence