late 14c., "reality," from Old French existence, from Medieval Latin existentia/exsistentia, from existentem/exsistentem (nominative existens/exsistens) "existent," present partici [..]

state or continuance of life.

being: the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" universe: everything that exi [..]

n. Possession or continuance of being.

Instantiation in reality, or actual being. Kant pointed out that existence is not a predicate, and Frege proposed that it is a second-order property of those first-order properties that happen to be i [..]

1.The quality of something that is. It is here. 2. Existentialism. A concrete experince rooted in a concrete world.

Variation of Maslow's motivational hierarchy that is applied in industrial and organisational psychology.

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Having real being within itself. The cause of its own being, depending upon nothing but itself. Different from subsistence.

(n) the state or fact of existing(n) everything that exists anywhere

In philosophy, “Existence” does not refer to something being “tangible” or material, as opposed to “ideal” or intangible — Ideas, espirit d’temps, etc exist just as much as sticks and stones. Nowadays [..]

n. "existence," s.v. existence OED. KEY: existence@n

n 1 existence 1

"Existence" is an attitude, not a point of view; it is, in fact, the attitude of negation. We have the ability to withdraw from our condition (to "ex-ist") because [..]

The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood. *''