Ens vs Tens - What's the difference?
ens | tens |
(philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
* 1860 , John Henry Macmahon, A treatise on metaphysics: chiefly in reference to revealed religion , page 195:
Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.
*2006 , (Philip Ball), The Devil's Doctor , Arrow 2007, p. 245:
*:Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses' or '''''entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease […].
English plurals
(poker slang) A pair of .
The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The teens, the oneties. Short for the nineteen-tens, twenty-tens, etc.
As an initialism tens is
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Etymology 1
From . See entity.Noun
(en-noun)- the Nature of the Supreme Ens
