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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations |
| Section I. Existence |
| 1. Being, in the Abstract |
| 1. Existence. |
| NOUN: | EXISTENCE, being, entity, ens [L.], esse [L.], subsistence; quid, hypaxis [rare], automaton. REALITY, actuality; positiveness &c. adj.; fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth [See Truth]; actual existence. PRESENCE (existence in space) [See Presence]; coexistence [See Synchronism]. STUBBORN FACT; not a dream [See Imagination]; no joke. ESSENCE, inmost nature, center of life, inner reality, vital principle. [SCIENCE OF EXISTENCE] ontology. |
| VERB: | EXIST, be; have being &c. n.; subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur (event) [See Eventuality]; have place, rank, prevail; find oneself, pass the time, vegetate. come into existence &c. n.; arise (begin) [See Beginning]; come forth (appear) [See Visibility]. BECOME (be converted) [See Conversion]; bring into existence [See Production]; coexist, postexist [rare], preëxist [rare]. CONSIST IN, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by. ABIDE, continue, endure, last, remain. |
| ADJECTIVE: | EXISTING &c. v.; existent, subsistent, under the sun; in existence &c. n.; extant; afloat, on foot, current, prevalent; undestroyed. REAL, actual, positive, absolute; factual, veritable, true [See Truth]; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential, beënt. WELL-FOUNDED, well-grounded; unideal, unimagined; not potential [See Nonexistence]; authentic. |
| ADVERB: | ACTUALLY &c. adj.; in fact, in point of fact, in reality; indeed; de facto [L.], ipso facto [L.]. |
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