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Exist

//ɛɡˈzɪst// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    to be; have existence; have being or reality intransitive, stative

    "Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other"

  2. 2
    have an existence, be extant wordnet
  3. 3
    support oneself wordnet

Etymology

From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.

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