Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Actual existence; entity.

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  • noun The state or quality of being being; existence.

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  • noun the state or fact of existing

Etymologies

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From being +‎ -ness. Translation of the German Seiendheit; sometimes also used to translate the simple Sein ("being").

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