Synonyms for existence
ɪgˈzɪs tənsex·is·tence

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1. existencenoun

   Antonyms:
   nothingness

2. existencenoun

   Most people doubt the existence of the Loch Ness monster.

   Antonyms:
   nothingness

3. existencenoun

   Antonyms:
   nothingness

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1. existence

   Synonyms:
   being, entity, creature

   Antonyms:
   nonentity, non-existence, chimera

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1. being, beingness, existencenoun

   the state or fact of existing

   "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries"

   Synonyms:
   organism, being, macrocosm, creation, world, beingness, cosmos, universe

   Antonyms:
   nonentity, nonexistence

2. universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosmnoun

   everything that exists anywhere

   "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"

   Synonyms:
   cosmos, humans, founding, humanity, public, man, instauration, cosmea, introduction, human race, universe, innovation, creative activity, humankind, conception, earth, reality, population, foundation, beingness, institution, human beings, origination, macrocosm, universe of discourse, domain, populace, globe, being, worldly concern, mankind, world, initiation, earthly concern, creation

   Antonyms:
   nonentity, nonexistence

Matched Categories

1. • Natural Object

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1. cryptozoology

   the study of evidence tending to substantiate the existence of, or the search for, creatures whose reported existence is unproved, as the abominable snowman or the loch ness monster.

   Submitted by rinat on September 4, 2019  

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1. existencenoun

   Synonyms:
   being, entity

2. existencenoun

   Synonyms:
   life, animation

3. existencenoun

   Synonyms:
   continuance, duration

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1. List of paraphrases for "existence":

   presence, availability, exist, survival, life, occurrence, livelihood

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1. Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000):

   One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.

2. Daniel Boren:

   Over time the chant was formalized in the local SAE chapter and was taught to pledges as part of the formal and informal leadership process, it is clear that during the four years since the chant was brought to the university campus, its existence was known by recent members and ... it became part of the institutionalized culture of the chapter.

3. Georges Bataille:

   To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

4. Arthur Schopenhauer:

   How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

5. Zaman Ali:

   Human as an intellectual being needs answers about the existence for the purpose of knowing the way to live.”