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Existent vs Exist - What's the difference?

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Exist is a derived term of existent.

Exist is a related term of existent.



As an adjective existent

is existing; having life or being, current; occurring now.

As a noun existent

is a being or entity that exists independently.

As a verb exist is

to be; have existence; have being or reality.

existent

English

Adjective

(-)
  • existing; having life or being, current; occurring now
  • Synonyms

    * existing

    Antonyms

    * nonexistent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) a being or entity that exists independently
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    exist

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to be; have existence; have being or reality
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  • Various relationships may exist between character and glyph:
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  • , regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
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  • , which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.

    Synonyms

    * be

    Derived terms

    * existence * existent * existential * existentialist * existentialism * existentially

    Anagrams

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