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   existence

   /ɪɡˈzɪst(ə)ns/

   noun

   • 1. the fact or state of living or having objective reality: "the organization has been in existence for fifteen years"
   • ▪ continued survival: "she kept the company alive when its very existence was threatened" Similar actualitybeingexistingrealityfactsurvivalcontinuancecontinuationsubsistencelivingquiddityesseOpposite non-existence
   • ▪ a way of living: "our stressed-out urban existence" Similar way of lifeway of livingmanner of livinglifelifestylecircumstancessituation
   • ▪ (in certain beliefs) any of a person's successive earthly lives: "a person may be reaping the consequences of evil deeds sown in previous existences"
   • ▪ all that exists: "he believed in the essential unity of all existence"
   • ▪ something that exists; a being.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin existentia, from Latin exsistere ‘come into being’, from ex- ‘out’ + sistere ‘take a stand’.

   Scrabble Points: 18

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