Heat and light are necessary for our existence.
Source: tatoeba (23503)
Existence
//ɛɡˈzɪs.təns//
Synonyms for "existence" (84 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (42)
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4 entriesderived
15 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas property
1 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
161 translations across 83 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- ekzistencë noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- qenie noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ῠ̔́πᾰρξῐς noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Arabic
3 entries- كَيْنُونَة noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- وجود noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- وُجُود noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Armenian
1 entries- գոյություն noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Asturian
1 entries- esistencia noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- mövcudluq noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- varlıq noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Bashkir
1 entries- барлыҡ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Belarusian
4 entries- быццё noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- быцьцё noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- экзістэ́нцыя noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- існава́нне noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Bengali
2 entries- অস্তিত্ব noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- ওজুদ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Bulgarian
2 entries- битие́ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- съществу́ване noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Burmese
1 entries- ဇာတ် noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Catalan
1 entries- existència noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- بوون noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Chinese
1 entries- 存在 noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 存在 noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 存在 noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Church Slavic
1 entries- бꙑтиѥ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Czech
2 entries- bytí noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- existence noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Danish
2 entries- eksistens noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- tilværelse noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Dutch
2 entries- bestaan noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- voorkomen noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- вуй noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Esperanto
2 entries- ekzistado noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- ekzisto noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Estonian
1 entries- olemasolu noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Fala
2 entries- existencia (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- ixistencia (Lagarteiru) noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Finnish
2 entries- olemassaolo noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- olevainen noun (empirical reality)
French
1 entries- existence noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Galician
1 entries- existencia noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Georgian
1 entries- არსებობა noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
German
3 entries- Dasein noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- Existenz noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- Sein noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Greek
1 entries- ύπαρξη noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Gujarati
1 entries- અસ્તિત્વ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 存在 noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Hebrew
1 entries- קִיּוּם noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Hindi
4 entries- अस्तित्व noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- भाव noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- वजूद noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- हस्ती noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Hungarian
2 entries- lét noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- létezés noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Icelandic
2 entries- tilvera noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- tilvist noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Indonesian
3 entries- adanya noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- eksistensi noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- keberadaan noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Interlingua
1 entries- existentia noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- بُوِش noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- هَسْتی noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- وُجود noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Irish
1 entries- an saol noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Italian
1 entries- esistenza noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Japanese
3 entries- 存在 noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- 実在 noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- 実存 noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Kazakh
2 entries- болмыс noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- тіршілік noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Khmer
1 entries- អត្ថិភាព noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Korean
3 entries- 실재 noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- 실존 noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- 존재 noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- жашоо noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Lao
4 entries- ຊີບ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- ຊີວະ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- ຊີວັງ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- ຊີວາລັຍ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Latin
1 entries- exsistentia noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Latvian
3 entries- eksistence noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- esamība noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- pastāvēšana noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Lithuanian
3 entries- buvimas noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- egzistavimas noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- egzistencija noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Macedonian
2 entries- битие noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- постоење noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Maltese
1 entries- eżistenza noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Mongolian
4 entries- амьдрал noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- ахуй noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- оршихуй noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- ᠠᠬᠤᠢ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Māori
2 entries- kaiaotanga noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- tauoranga noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Norman
1 entries- beays noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- hebûn noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- wicûd noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- eksistens noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- tilværelse noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Occitan
1 entries- existéncia noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Old English
1 entries- wist noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Pashto
3 entries- شتون noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- هستي noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- وجود noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Polish
3 entries- byt noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- egzystencja noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- istnienie noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Portuguese
1 entries- existência noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Romanian
1 entries- existență noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Russian
3 entries- бытие́ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- существова́ние noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- экзисте́нция noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Sanskrit
1 entries- अस्तित्व noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bitisanje noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- egzistencija noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- postojanje noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- битисање noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Slovak
2 entries- bytie noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- existencia noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Slovene
2 entries- bitje noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- obstoj noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Spanish
1 entries- existencia noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Swedish
3 entries- existens noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- tillvaro noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- vara noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Tagalog
2 entries- kamayhan noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- kamayrunan noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Tajik
3 entries- бувиш noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- вуҷуд noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- ҳастӣ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Tatar
3 entries- барлык noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- вөҗүд noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- яшәү noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Thai
2 entries- การมีตัวตน noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- การมีอยู่ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Turkish
3 entries- egzistans noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- varlık noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- varoluş noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Turkmen
1 entries- barlyk noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Ukrainian
3 entries- буття́ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- екзисте́нція noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- існува́ння noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Urdu
2 entries- وَجُود noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- ہَسْتی noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Uyghur
1 entries- مەۋجۇتلۇق noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Uzbek
2 entries- borliq noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
- mavjudlik noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tồn tại noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 存在 noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Yiddish
1 entries- עקסיסטענץ noun (state of being, existing, or occurring)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Malaysia came into existence in 1957.
Source: tatoeba (32310)
The main point of Dennett's book, in short, is to deny the existence of inner mental states.
Source: tatoeba (39372)
It is the oldest wooden building in existence.
Source: tatoeba (42468)
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