Definition of Existent

1. Adjective. Having existence or being or actuality. "Much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"

Exact synonyms: Existing
Attributes: Being, Beingness, Existence
Similar to: Active, Alive
Also: Extant
Derivative terms: Exist, Existence
Antonyms: Nonexistent

2. Adjective. Being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory. "Life is real! Life is earnest!"
Exact synonyms: Real
Attributes: Realism, Reality, Realness
Also: Concrete, Echt, Genuine, Realistic, Sincere
Similar to: Actual, Actual, Factual, Documentary, Objective, Historical
Derivative terms: Exist, Existence, Reality, Reality, Realness
Antonyms: Unreal

3. Adjective. Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible. "Actual and imagined conditions"
Exact synonyms: Actual
Attributes: Actuality
Similar to: Effective
Derivative terms: Actuality, Actualize, Actualize, Exist, Existence
Antonyms: Potential

Definition of Existent

1. a. Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.

Definition of Existent

1. Adjective. existing; having life or being, current; occurring now ¹

2. Noun. (archaic) a being or entity that exists independently ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Existent

1. something that exists [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Existent

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exines
exing
exinitic
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existability
existable
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existent (current term)
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existential crisis
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Literary usage of Existent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1888)
"But to the non-existent we were constrained to assign ignorance, ... Then neither the existent nor the non-existent is the object of opinion ? No. ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"Where there is no pre-existent right to be secured, the power of Congress ... It proceeds upon assuming a pre-existent common law right, which, however, ..."

3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Geometers now profess ignorance in many respects of the exact axioms which apply to existent space, and it seems unlikely that a ..."

4. Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies: Being Selections by Octavius Brooks Frothingham, John Wilson (1880)
"When we speak simply of the Son without reference to the Father, we truly and properly assert him to be self- existent, and therefore call him the sole ..."

5. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1886)
"In this way, " non-existent " God made the world out of nonentities, ... And he who speaks the word, he says, was non-existent ; nor was that existent which ..."

6. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1892)
"... which is active (kar^ako), and that which is existent ... how it is when the existent becomes quite active, and how it is when both are suppressed ..."

7. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1854)
"Of the secondary law of co-existent emotion. A third secondary law is CO-existent EMOTION. ... existent ..."

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