Definition of "existence" []

• The fact or state of existing; being. (noun)
• The fact or state of continued being; life: our brief existence on Earth. (noun)
• All that exists: sang the beauty of all existence. (noun)
• A thing that exists; an entity. (noun)
• A mode or manner of existing: scratched out a meager existence. (noun)

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• "Bolzano took this dictum to be about existence in his own narrow sense of ˜existence™ or"
• "If, rejecting the word Thing, we endeavour to find another of a more general import, or at least more exclusively confined to that general import, a word denoting all that exists, and connoting only simple existence; no word might be presumed fitter for such a purpose than _being_: originally the present participle of a verb which in one of its meanings is exactly equivalent to the verb _exist_; and therefore suitable, even by its grammatical formation, to be the concrete of the abstract _existence_."
• "One of the things that make Glock pistols some of the safest in existence is their unique Safe Action System."