existence : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: existence	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for existence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
existence n the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" Synonym(s): being, beingness, existence Antonym(s): nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" Synonym(s): universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosm
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Existence \Exist"ence\, n. [Cf. F. existence.] 1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence* of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. --Lubbock. 2. Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war. The existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but another word for its being perceived, or for the inferred possibility of perceiving it. --J. S. Mill. 3. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.