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Existing vs Extant - What's the difference?

existing | extant |

As adjectives the difference between existing and extant

is that existing is that exists, or has existence, especially that exists now while extant is still in existence.

As a verb existing

is present participle of lang=en.

existing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
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    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

    Synonyms

    * existent

    Anagrams

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    extant

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Still in existence.
  • * 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
    • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • Currently existing; not having disappeared.
  • Still alive; not extinct.

    • Antonyms

    * (still alive) extinct