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/ɪgzˈɪstɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Exist v. i. (past & past part. existed; pres. part. existing)

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. "Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist." "To conceive the world... to have existed from eternity."

To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist in water, nor fishes on land.

Synonyms: See Be.

adjective

existing adj.

Having existence or being or actuality; as, much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran. Opposite of nonexistent. (Narrower terms: active, alive; extant, surviving) Also See: extant.

Synonyms: existent.

Present. Opposite of absent.

Presently existing; as, the existing system.

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Etymology of 'Existing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Existing" Quotes from Famous Books

... not in the province of this monograph to deal with the probable affiliations of the Igorot, neither is it our intention to attempt to locate the ancient home of the Tinguian, nor to connect them with any existing groups. However, our information seems to justify us in certain general conclusions. It shows that the oft repeated assertions of Chinese ancestry are without foundation. It shows that, while trade with China had ...

— The Tinguian - Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe • Fay-Cooper Cole

... dreams, to his beggarly improved substitute, which appeals neither to our common sense nor to our moral intuitions. Taking his own criterion, utility, as the test of truth, his religion of humanity fails to establish itself, for it postpones the happiness of each existing generation to the fancied good of future generations which may never be born, and this ad infinitum. On this part of his subject Mr. Mill is simply fatuous, as when he speaks of our being sustained in this faith by the approbation of the dead whom we venerate. But if Socrates ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 90, June, 1875 • Various

... describe the existing political situation than by quoting the opinion of leading newspapers ...

— The Casual Ward - academic and other oddments • A. D. Godley

... don't try it," Randolph exclaimed. "When I look around me in the train and see the care-worn, harassed faces the men wear, I wonder they don't break loose from their drudgery and go to living. What's the use of existing if you have to drudge continually for your bread, and must eat even that in debt ...

— The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives • Elizabeth Strong Worthington

... were like a man I know and Billing were my name, I wouldn't waste my precious time in striving after fame; I'd let it come to me unsought, unstruggled for, and then I'd just go on existing ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 • Various

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