Exist vs. Existence — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Exist and Existence
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Exist
To have actual being; be real.
Existence
Existence is the ability of an entity to interact with physical or mental reality. In philosophy, it refers to the ontological property of being.
Exist
To have life; live
One of the worst actors that ever existed.
Existence
The fact or state of living or having objective reality
The organization has been in existence for fifteen years
Exist
To live at a minimal level; subsist
Barely enough income on which to exist.
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Existence
The fact or state of existing; being.
Exist
To continue to be; persist
Old customs that still exist in rural areas.
Existence
The fact or state of continued being; life
Our brief existence on Earth.
Exist
To be present under certain circumstances or in a specified place; occur
"Wealth and poverty exist in every demographic category" (Thomas G. Exter).
Existence
All that exists
Sang the beauty of all existence.
Exist
To be; have existence; have being or reality
Existence
A thing that exists; an entity.
Exist
To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
Who now, alas! no more is missedThan if he never did exist.
To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity.
Existence
A mode or manner of existing
Scratched out a meager existence.
Exist
To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
Existence
Specific presence; occurrence
The Geiger counter indicated the existence of radioactivity.
Exist
To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist in water, nor fishes on land.
Existence
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
In order to destroy evil, we must first acknowledge its existence.
Exist
Have an existence, be extant;
Is there a God?
Existence
Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
Exist
Support oneself;
He could barely exist on such a low wage
Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?
Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
Existence
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.
Existence
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.
Existence
That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.
Existence
The state or fact of existing;
A point of view gradually coming into being
Laws in existence for centuries
Existence
Everything that exists anywhere;
They study the evolution of the universe
The biggest tree in existence
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