Entity vs Existance - What's the difference?
entity | existance |
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 --
* {{quote-book
, year = 2003
, title = Islam: Questions and Answers - Schools of Thought, Religions and Sects
, author = Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman
, quotee = Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
, volume = 8
, publisher = MSA Publication Limited
, isbn = 9781861792914
, page = 89
, passage = The athiest(SIC) is destined to Hell fire in the Hereafter. This is because the athiest refuses the most basic belief which is the existance and oneness of Allaah.
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=xcPwGmYwCKUC&pg=PA89
}}
As nouns the difference between entity and existance
is that entity is that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit often used for organisations which have no physical form while existance is .entity
English
(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.