Existence vs Survive - What's the difference?
existence | survive |
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)
Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
To live longer than; to outlive.
* Shakespeare
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , X:
To live past a life-threatening event.
(sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
As a noun existence
is the state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.As a verb survive is
of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.existence
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(wikipedia existence)Noun
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Antonyms
* nothingnessDerived terms
* nonexistencesurvive
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Verb
(surviv)- His children survived''' him; he was '''survived by his children.
- I'll assure her of / Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, / In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
- ‘I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.’
- He did not survive the accident.
