universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosm
(noun) everything that exists anywhere; “they study the evolution of the universe”; “the biggest tree in existence”
being, beingness, existence, face of the earth
(noun) the state or fact of existing; “a point of view gradually coming into being”; “laws in existence for centuries”; “he appeared on the face of the earth one day”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
existence (countable and uncountable, plural existences)
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
Synonym: presence
Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
• (state of being): See also existence
• (state of being): nonexistence, nothingness; See also inexistence
• ectexines
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*ist"ence, n. Etym: [Cf. F. existence.]
1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock.
2. Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war. The existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but another word for its being perceived, or for the inferred possibility of perceiving it. J. S. Mill.
3. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 December 2024
(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
