Entity vs. Attribute — What's the Difference?

A thing with distinct and independent existence

To regard as arising from a particular cause or source; ascribe

Something that exists as a particular and discrete unit

To regard (a work, for example) as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time

The fact of existence; being.

A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.

The existence of something considered apart from its properties.

An object associated with and serving to identify a character, personage, or office

That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.

(Grammar) A word or phrase syntactically subordinate to another word or phrase that it modifies; for example, my sister's and brown in my sister's brown dog.

The existence of something considered apart from its properties.

A characteristic or quality of a thing.

(databases) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.

An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.

The state or quality of being or existence.

(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.

A spirit, ghost, or the like.

(logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.

(science fiction) An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.

An option or setting belonging to some object.

A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.

(programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.

That which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

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A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.

To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.

To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).

That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.

Reputation.

A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;

An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

Attribute or credit to;

Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;