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exists | existence |

As a verb exists

is (exist).

As a noun existence is

the state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.

exists

English

Verb

(head)
  • (exist)
  • Anagrams

    *

    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.
  • * 2012 , The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification , ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 55:
  • , 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

    * * ----

    existence

    Noun

  • The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
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  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=146, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= 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.}}
  • Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
  • Antonyms

    * nothingness

    Derived terms

    * nonexistence