Extinct vs Existence - What's the difference?
extinct | existence |
(dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
* Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
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No longer in existence; having died out.
(vulcanology) No longer actively erupting.
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis' of a commonplace ' existence .}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jeremy Bernstein)
, volume=100, issue=2, page=146, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
As an adjective extinct
is (dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).As a noun existence is
the state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.extinct
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct .
- Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system
writes in there'' as two words but ''therein'' as one word might be taken as suggest-
ing that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern
English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a
few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as ''thereby .
- The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
- Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct .
Synonyms
* deadAntonyms
* (no longer alight) burning * (having died out) extant * active, dormantExternal links
* *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.}}
