Dictionary entry details
• EXISTENCE (noun)
Meaning:
The state or fact of existing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
being; beingness; existence
Context examples:
a point of view gradually coming into being / laws in existence for centuries
Hypernyms ("existence" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Attribute:
existent; existing (having existence or being or actuality)
nonexistent (not having existence or being or actuality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "existence"):
transcendence; transcendency (a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience)
life (a characteristic state or mode of living)
aliveness; animation; life; living (the condition of living or the state of being alive)
life (the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living)
presence (the state of being present; current existence)
subsistence (the state of existing in reality; having substance)
coexistence (existing peacefully together)
preexistence (existing in a former state or previous to something else)
eternity; timeless existence; timelessness (a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife)
actuality (the state of actually existing objectively)
possibility; possibleness (capability of existing or happening or being true)
Antonym:
nonexistence (the state of not existing)
Meaning:
Everything that exists anywhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
cosmos; macrocosm; universe; world; existence; creation
Context examples:
they study the evolution of the universe / the biggest tree in existence
Hypernyms ("existence" is a kind of...):
natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)
Meronyms (parts of "existence"):
celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)
estraterrestrial body; extraterrestrial object (a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere)
Meronyms (members of "existence"):
extragalactic nebula; galaxy ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "existence"):
closed universe ((cosmology) a universe in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang and to cause the universe to collapse again; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter)
natural order (the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws)
nature (the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.)
