being
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(noun) the state or fact of existing: "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" |
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Synonyms: beingness, existence |
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Related Words: actuality, aliveness, animation, coexistence, eternity, life, living, possibility, possibleness, preexistence, presence, state, subsistence, timeless existence, timelessness, transcendence, transcendency |
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Antonyms: nonbeing |
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(noun) any living entity |
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Synonyms: life form, living thing, organism |
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Related Words: aerobe, amphidiploid, anaerobe, animal, animalcule, animalculum, animate being, atavist, beast, biont, brute, clon, clone, commensal, congenator, congener, creature, crossbreed, diploid, entity, eucaryote, eukaryote, fauna, flora, haploid, host, human, hybrid, individual, katharobe, life, mascot, microorganism, mortal, mutant, mutation, myrmecophile, nekton, nonvascular organism, parasite, person, plankton, plant, plant life, polymorph, polyploid, procaryote, prokaryote, relative, relict, saprobe, saprophyte, saprophytic organism, somebody, someone, something, soul, sport, throwback, zooid |
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