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Definition of existence in English: existencenoun ɪɡˈzɪst(ə)nsɛɡˈzɪst(ə)nsɪɡˈzɪstəns mass noun1The fact or state of living or having objective reality. 存在 the organization has been in existence for fifteen years Example sentencesExamples - What we discovered was truly frightening and made us question our own existence in this strange, strange world.
- She stares at me like I'm the stupidest human being in existence.
- He had found that an atheist is one who denies the existence of God.
- He was called away from temporal existence on November 12.
- I was unaware of its existence at the time I wrote my text.
- Although 0% credit cards haven't actually been in existence for that long it's hard to remember a time before them!
- Selfhood, life and mere existence are meaningless if not suffused with this life-giving force.
- Secular humanists are basically atheists who deny the very existence of a personal living God.
- He has always written songs with a message and can claim to have been preaching the green gospel long before the Green Party came into existence.
- Your brother, Matthew, does not know of your existence at this time.
- The orcas in question are already on the endangered list in Canada - and, in fact, there are only 80 in existence.
- In fact, its existence was barely acknowledged.
- Whatever their limitations - and there are many - the passions are a prerequisite of everyday human existence.
- In fact, this arrangement may be the only one in existence anywhere in the United States.
- I want to enjoy my existence on this earth, be happy and make merry.
- I was so stunned to know he acknowledged my mere existence.
- It's one of the few publications in existence that is actually eminently more readable on the Net than it is on paper.
- In fact, there's only one other similar document in existence.
- Despite the fact that the club has only been in existence for a short time, both teams acquitted themselves well.
- Heralded the most valuable natural object in existence, on a weight to weight basis, experts believe that the diamond is the only one of its kind.
Synonyms alive, existing, extant, existent - 1.1 Continued survival.
生存 she kept the company alive when its very existence was threatened 在公司的生存受到威胁时,她帮助公司存在了下来。 Example sentencesExamples - Do I then believe that human existence depends on social and economic changes?
- Parts of both have survived into the 21st century, but their continued existence is precarious.
- The commercial director has been charged with the job of getting the club's finances back in order with the serious situation threatening its very existence.
- Whenever we attended we found ourselves in pointless meetings with people justifying their own existence.
- Our existence on the planet is ecologically intimately bound to the life of trees.
- The series is named after a unit in the Metropolitan Police, whose continued existence the force will neither confirm nor deny.
- Therefore, our existence on earth is linked to our ability to see solar eclipses.
- The world yet again faces another mind-boggling issue which threatens the existence of human beings on planet earth.
- Single-party regimes enjoy continued existence, in part, because they enjoy an air of infallibility.
- The Jewish working class, not entirely without reason, identified its own survival with the continued existence of this state.
- Why use that excuse to justify the continued existence of slavery?
- They see that military operations have increased and pose a threat to our people's existence and survival as a culture and ethnic entity.
- These leaders realised that if this madness continued the very existence of the people was at stake.
- Unity with nature is the foundation of man's existence on the planet.
- It's not a threat to national security, it's not threatening the continued existence of Australia as a nation state, or anything like that.
- Everyday there is a new crisis of modernity that threatens our continued existence.
- It would fool people into thinking that by joining and supporting the aims of Countryside Ireland that they are supporting the existence of rural Ireland.
- Bedouin existence depended on their herds and flocks.
- Their thoughts are controlled by men, and their very existence depends on men.
- The candidates for this system were generally documents whose continued existence would very likely undermine the legitimacy of the State.
- Even so, the company says the cars are not selling well enough to justify their continued existence.
Synonyms actuality, being, existing, reality, fact survival, continuance, continuation, subsistence, living Philosophy quiddity, esse - 1.2count noun A way of living.
生活(方式) our stressed-out urban existence Example sentencesExamples - Yet they lead a tough existence, working very hard, barely eking out a living under frequently demeaning circumstances.
- After living on a commune, he and his wife moved to Burlington, joining so many other back-to-the-landers looking to flee their harried urban existences.
- This album is entirely a product of living and coping with a city existence.
- The fact that we would have to eke out a miserable existence as rural farmers has not occurred to them.
- I believe it is to enable us to lead a civilised domestic life where we can conduct a sociable existence while at the same time providing hospitality for our friends and family.
- Such an existence would be indescribably chaotic, no underlying reason or logic behind anything.
- People living a hand-to-mouth existence are turning to ' buy-back stores' to get their hands on ready money.
- In their daily lives Americans, and not only those living in smaller communities, lead an impoverished existence.
- Freedom from physical threats and safe living conditions are the foundations of a dignified existence just as much as civic and human rights.
- No doubt, the number of survivors eking out a precarious existence must far exceed the death toll.
- Most of the people live a subsistence existence, obtaining a living from growing rice, goats, poultry or fishing.
- Muddling along and having panic attacks a year or two before your child has to attend secondary school or university is not conducive to a stress-free existence.
- People here live a hand-to-mouth existence, picking through the trash for something of value.
- In a frequently harsh, small-scale subsistence existence, people were all too aware of nature and her awesome powers.
- An odd sort of surrealness has glazed over the events of the past two weeks as I continue my relatively peaceful existence on my college campus.
- Enlisting Crumb's help, he writes a series that chronicles his mundane, day-to-day existence.
- No matter how people try to maintain a normal existence, there is an underlying hysteria waiting to rear its pulsating head.
- No matter how you tried to live a stress-free existence, always there would be something to get you all riled up.
- The reward for the risk taken pays rent, feeds children, and supports a subsistence level existence.
- However, surviving on minimal water resources could result in farmers having to lead a precarious existence, depending heavily on seasonal rains.
Synonyms way of life, way of living, manner of living, life, lifestyle, circumstances, situation - 1.3count 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 Example sentencesExamples - Of a previous existence I know no more than others, for all have stammering intimations that may be memories and may be dreams.
- Both could recall memories of previous existences on Earth and indeed this idea is a very natural one given the cyclical nature of time as observed in the seasons and years.
- An individual's role throughout life is fixed by his or her good and evil deeds in a previous existence.
- In previous existences, this electronic engineer brought cable TV to Sligo and helped get Sligo airport off the ground.
- Some may know that I will admit to having had a violin in my possession in a previous existence.
- The purpose of such rites is to separate people from a previous existence.
- There is no doubt that he (who observes a fast on that day) is freed from the sin due to speech, mental sin or especially bodily sin committed during the seven existences.
- But I'm not a believer in past lives, so I knew it was no echo from a previous existence.
- Many people have experimented with past life regression under hypnosis and claim to recall experiences from previous existences.
- She was saying that Alice Hraldy has been able to contact the entity that had been J.S. Bach in a previous existence.
- In a previous existence Ms Honeyball was a probation officer, dedicated to keeping real criminals out of jail in order to make room for villains like Mr Bloom.
- Dr. Allan thinks he has met Dr. Bernadette before (in a previous existence, it is strongly implied).
- We were vulnerable to one another, having changed roles and forms countless times in previous existences.
- I suggested, maybe, that he'd have the chef cook me a fresh one - the miserable lump was not only cold but had been burnt in a previous existence.
- 1.4 All that exists.
he believed in the essential unity of all existence Example sentencesExamples - I don't know, and don't care, because in either case it does not affect my reality and my place in existence.
- Eventually the stars would burn out and a curtain of frozen darkness would enshroud all existence.
- 1.5archaic count noun Something that exists; a being.
Example sentencesExamples - There is no limit to the ever-increasing number of deified existences.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin existentia, from Latin exsistere 'come into being', from ex- 'out' + sistere 'take a stand'. Rhymesassistance, coexistence, consistence, distance, insistence, outdistance, persistence, resistance, subsistence Definition of existence in US English: existencenouniɡˈzistənsɪɡˈzɪstəns 1The fact or state of living or having objective reality. 存在 the plane was the oldest Boeing remaining in existence 这架飞机是现存最老的一架波音飞机。 the need to acknowledge the existence of a problem 承认存在问题的必要性。 Example sentencesExamples - Your brother, Matthew, does not know of your existence at this time.
- Selfhood, life and mere existence are meaningless if not suffused with this life-giving force.
- Although 0% credit cards haven't actually been in existence for that long it's hard to remember a time before them!
- In fact, this arrangement may be the only one in existence anywhere in the United States.
- Whatever their limitations - and there are many - the passions are a prerequisite of everyday human existence.
- It's one of the few publications in existence that is actually eminently more readable on the Net than it is on paper.
- He was called away from temporal existence on November 12.
- He has always written songs with a message and can claim to have been preaching the green gospel long before the Green Party came into existence.
- Despite the fact that the club has only been in existence for a short time, both teams acquitted themselves well.
- I was so stunned to know he acknowledged my mere existence.
- In fact, its existence was barely acknowledged.
- What we discovered was truly frightening and made us question our own existence in this strange, strange world.
- Heralded the most valuable natural object in existence, on a weight to weight basis, experts believe that the diamond is the only one of its kind.
- I want to enjoy my existence on this earth, be happy and make merry.
- Secular humanists are basically atheists who deny the very existence of a personal living God.
- I was unaware of its existence at the time I wrote my text.
- The orcas in question are already on the endangered list in Canada - and, in fact, there are only 80 in existence.
- He had found that an atheist is one who denies the existence of God.
- She stares at me like I'm the stupidest human being in existence.
- In fact, there's only one other similar document in existence.
Synonyms alive, existing, extant, existent - 1.1 Continued survival.
生存 she helped to keep the company alive when its very existence was threatened 在公司的生存受到威胁时,她帮助公司存在了下来。 Example sentencesExamples - Our existence on the planet is ecologically intimately bound to the life of trees.
- Even so, the company says the cars are not selling well enough to justify their continued existence.
- It's not a threat to national security, it's not threatening the continued existence of Australia as a nation state, or anything like that.
- The Jewish working class, not entirely without reason, identified its own survival with the continued existence of this state.
- Bedouin existence depended on their herds and flocks.
- The series is named after a unit in the Metropolitan Police, whose continued existence the force will neither confirm nor deny.
- Everyday there is a new crisis of modernity that threatens our continued existence.
- Unity with nature is the foundation of man's existence on the planet.
- Why use that excuse to justify the continued existence of slavery?
- Do I then believe that human existence depends on social and economic changes?
- Parts of both have survived into the 21st century, but their continued existence is precarious.
- The candidates for this system were generally documents whose continued existence would very likely undermine the legitimacy of the State.
- The commercial director has been charged with the job of getting the club's finances back in order with the serious situation threatening its very existence.
- They see that military operations have increased and pose a threat to our people's existence and survival as a culture and ethnic entity.
- Therefore, our existence on earth is linked to our ability to see solar eclipses.
- The world yet again faces another mind-boggling issue which threatens the existence of human beings on planet earth.
- It would fool people into thinking that by joining and supporting the aims of Countryside Ireland that they are supporting the existence of rural Ireland.
- Whenever we attended we found ourselves in pointless meetings with people justifying their own existence.
- These leaders realised that if this madness continued the very existence of the people was at stake.
- Their thoughts are controlled by men, and their very existence depends on men.
- Single-party regimes enjoy continued existence, in part, because they enjoy an air of infallibility.
Synonyms actuality, being, existing, reality, fact - 1.2 A way of living.
生活(方式) living in a city was more expensive than a rural existence 城市生活比农村生活的花费大。 Example sentencesExamples - People living a hand-to-mouth existence are turning to ' buy-back stores' to get their hands on ready money.
- However, surviving on minimal water resources could result in farmers having to lead a precarious existence, depending heavily on seasonal rains.
- The fact that we would have to eke out a miserable existence as rural farmers has not occurred to them.
- Yet they lead a tough existence, working very hard, barely eking out a living under frequently demeaning circumstances.
- In their daily lives Americans, and not only those living in smaller communities, lead an impoverished existence.
- People here live a hand-to-mouth existence, picking through the trash for something of value.
- Most of the people live a subsistence existence, obtaining a living from growing rice, goats, poultry or fishing.
- No matter how people try to maintain a normal existence, there is an underlying hysteria waiting to rear its pulsating head.
- An odd sort of surrealness has glazed over the events of the past two weeks as I continue my relatively peaceful existence on my college campus.
- No doubt, the number of survivors eking out a precarious existence must far exceed the death toll.
- After living on a commune, he and his wife moved to Burlington, joining so many other back-to-the-landers looking to flee their harried urban existences.
- I believe it is to enable us to lead a civilised domestic life where we can conduct a sociable existence while at the same time providing hospitality for our friends and family.
- The reward for the risk taken pays rent, feeds children, and supports a subsistence level existence.
- This album is entirely a product of living and coping with a city existence.
- Enlisting Crumb's help, he writes a series that chronicles his mundane, day-to-day existence.
- Such an existence would be indescribably chaotic, no underlying reason or logic behind anything.
- In a frequently harsh, small-scale subsistence existence, people were all too aware of nature and her awesome powers.
- Freedom from physical threats and safe living conditions are the foundations of a dignified existence just as much as civic and human rights.
- No matter how you tried to live a stress-free existence, always there would be something to get you all riled up.
- Muddling along and having panic attacks a year or two before your child has to attend secondary school or university is not conducive to a stress-free existence.
Synonyms way of life, way of living, manner of living, life, lifestyle, circumstances, situation - 1.3 Any of a person's supposed current, future, or past lives on this earth.
reaping the consequences of evil deeds sown in previous existences Example sentencesExamples - I suggested, maybe, that he'd have the chef cook me a fresh one - the miserable lump was not only cold but had been burnt in a previous existence.
- Many people have experimented with past life regression under hypnosis and claim to recall experiences from previous existences.
- But I'm not a believer in past lives, so I knew it was no echo from a previous existence.
- We were vulnerable to one another, having changed roles and forms countless times in previous existences.
- An individual's role throughout life is fixed by his or her good and evil deeds in a previous existence.
- Some may know that I will admit to having had a violin in my possession in a previous existence.
- There is no doubt that he (who observes a fast on that day) is freed from the sin due to speech, mental sin or especially bodily sin committed during the seven existences.
- She was saying that Alice Hraldy has been able to contact the entity that had been J.S. Bach in a previous existence.
- In previous existences, this electronic engineer brought cable TV to Sligo and helped get Sligo airport off the ground.
- Of a previous existence I know no more than others, for all have stammering intimations that may be memories and may be dreams.
- Both could recall memories of previous existences on Earth and indeed this idea is a very natural one given the cyclical nature of time as observed in the seasons and years.
- The purpose of such rites is to separate people from a previous existence.
- In a previous existence Ms Honeyball was a probation officer, dedicated to keeping real criminals out of jail in order to make room for villains like Mr Bloom.
- Dr. Allan thinks he has met Dr. Bernadette before (in a previous existence, it is strongly implied).
- 1.4 All that exists.
Example sentencesExamples - Eventually the stars would burn out and a curtain of frozen darkness would enshroud all existence.
- I don't know, and don't care, because in either case it does not affect my reality and my place in existence.
- 1.5archaic A being or entity.
〈古〉存在物;实体 Example sentencesExamples - There is no limit to the ever-increasing number of deified existences.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin existentia, from Latin exsistere ‘come into being’, from ex- ‘out’ + sistere ‘take a stand’. |