Definición de existence en inglés:


Saltos de línea: ex¦ist|ence
Pronunciación: /ɪgˈzɪst(ə)ns
, ɛg-/


[mass noun]
1The fact or state of living or having objective reality: the organization has been in existence for fifteen years
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  • He was called away from temporal existence on November 12.
1.1Continued survival: she kept the company alive when its very existence was threatened
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actuality, being, existing, reality, fact; survival, continuance, continuation, subsistence, living; Philosophyquiddity, esse
1.2 [count noun] A way of living: our stressed-out urban existence
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1.3 [count noun] (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
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  • The purpose of such rites is to separate people from a previous existence.
1.4All that exists: he believed in the essential unity of all existence
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1.5 [count noun] archaic Something that exists; a being.
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  • There is no limit to the ever-increasing number of deified existences.


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

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