existence

Definition

  • noun: the state of existing
  • noun: reality as opposed to appearance
  • usually singular
  • synonyms: being, creature, entity

Examples

  • We shouldn't deny the 'existence' of these problems. [=we shouldn't deny that these problems are present or real]

  • long before the country had 'come into existence' [=begun to exist; come to have actual being]

  • I owe my very 'existence' [='life'] to their courage. [=I am alive because of their courage]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) That's all we learned. But + has never equalled . They're in fact, no numbers and no letters. We codify our existence to bring it down to haman size to make it comprehensible. We created the scale so that we can forget its unfathomable scale. what governs all that? Form a car speeding down the road... speed up the image infinitely and the car disappears. So, what proof do we have of its existence? Time gives legitimacy to its existence. Time is the only true unit of meassure. Without time, we don't exist. Time is 'unity'. (..)
    2014 Lucy