Existence vs Existent - What's the difference?
existence | existent | Related terms |
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
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, title= Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
Existent is a related term of existence.
As nouns the difference between existence and existent
is that existence is the state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood while existent is a being or entity that exists independently.As an adjective existent is
existing; having life or being, current; occurring now.existence
English
(wikipedia existence)Noun
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.}}