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Existence

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence.

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Actuality 76% connected

The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature.

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Animation 76% connected

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.

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Coexistence 76% connected

Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence.

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Eternity 76% connected

Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

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Life 76% connected

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…

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Living 76% connected

of Live

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Nature 76% connected

The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe.

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Possibility 76% connected

The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

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Preexistence 76% connected

Existence in a former state, or previous to something else.

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Presence 76% connected

The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.

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Subsistence 76% connected

Real being; existence.

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Transcendence 76% connected

Alt. of Transcendency

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Transcendency 76% connected

The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence.

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Be 74% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Be 74% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Existent 74% connected

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

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Existent 74% connected

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

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Real 74% connected

A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.

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Real 74% connected

A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.

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Galaxy 70% connected

The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so dis…

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Existent 66% connected

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

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Existent 66% connected

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

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Being 92% connected

of Be

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Cosmos 92% connected

The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.

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Creation 92% connected

The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

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Macrocosm 92% connected

The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.

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Universe 92% connected

All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the / / of the Greeks, the mundus of the La…

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World 92% connected

The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.

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