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Realistic vs Existent - What's the difference?

realistic | existent |

As adjectives the difference between realistic and existent

is that realistic is expressed or represented as being accurate while existent is existing; having life or being, current; occurring now.

As a noun existent is

a being or entity that exists independently.

realistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Expressed or represented as being accurate.
    • A ''realistic'' appraisal of the situation.
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    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.}}
  • Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.
    • A ''realistic'' novel about the Victorian poor.

    Antonyms

    * unrealistic * utopian

    Derived terms

    * realisticity * realisticness

    Related terms

    * real * realism * realist * reality * realize

    Anagrams

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    existent

    English

    Adjective

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

    • Synonyms

    * existing

    Antonyms

    * nonexistent

    Related terms

    * exist * existence * existential * extant

    Noun

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