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ex·is·tent

 (ĭg-zĭs′tənt)
adj.
1. Having life or being; existing. See Synonyms at real1.
2. Occurring or present at the moment; current.
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existent

(ɪɡˈzɪstənt)
adj
1. in existence; extant; current
2. having existence; living
n
a person or a thing that exists
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ex•ist•ent

(ɪgˈzɪs tənt)

adj.
1. existing; having existence.
2. now existing.
[1555–65; < Latin]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.existent - having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"
extant - still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd
nonexistent - not having existence or being or actuality; "chimeras are nonexistent"
2.existent - being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow
concrete - capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary; "concrete objects such as trees"
echt, genuine - not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"
realistic - aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are; "a realistic description"; "a realistic view of the possibilities"; "a realistic appraisal of our chances"; "the actors tried to create a realistic portrayal of the Africans"
sincere - open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"
3.existent - presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible; "the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different"; "actual and imagined conditions"
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existent

adjective in existence, living, existing, surviving, around, standing, remaining, present, current, alive, enduring, prevailing, abiding, to the fore (Scot.), extant human rights in former and still existent communist states
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existent

adjective
1. Occurring or existing in act or fact:
2. Having existence or life:
noun
One that exists independently:
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Translations

existent

[ɪgˈzɪstənt] ADJexistente, actual
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existent

adjexistent; conditions, lawsbestehend; to be existentexistieren; dinosaurs are no longer existentDinosaurier gibt es nicht mehr
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existent

[ɪgˈzɪstənt] adj (frm) → esistente
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References in classic literature ?
It may be said: If there is no single existent which is the source of all these "aspects," how are they collected together?
Like the different appearances of the table to a number of simultaneous observers, the different particulars that belong to one physical object are to be collected together by continuity and inherent laws of correlation, not by their supposed causal connection with an unknown assumed existent called a piece of matter, which would be a mere unnecessary metaphysical thing in itself.
And it must be noted that I say of our reason, and not of our imagination or of our senses: thus, for example, although we very clearly see the sun, we ought not therefore to determine that it is only of the size which our sense of sight presents; and we may very distinctly imagine the head of a lion joined to the body of a goat, without being therefore shut up to the conclusion that a chimaera exists; for it is not a dictate of reason that what we thus see or imagine is in reality existent; but it plainly tells us that all our ideas or notions contain in them some truth; for otherwise it could not be that God, who is wholly perfect and veracious, should have placed them in us.
It was the practice of our venerable ancestors to apply that ingenious instrument the thumb-screw, and to tighten and tighten it in order to elicit non-existent facts; they had a fixed opinion to begin with, that the facts were existent, and what had they to do but to tighten the thumb-screw?
And so he whimpered and cried, lost child, lost puppy-dog that he was, only half a year existent in the fair world sharp with joy and suffering.
In a joint statement issued here on Sunday, The Businessmen Panel (BMP) felicitated Imran Khan for assuming the charge of country's Prime Minister, and hoped that he would efficiently address the existent economic challenges in a pragmatic manner that may particularly reduce the existent trade deficit of the country.
KARACHI -- The Businessmen Panel (BMP) felicitated Imran Khan for assuming the country's prime ministership with the hope that he would be able to efficiently address the existent economic challenges in a pragmatic manner that may particularly reduce the existent trade deficit of the country.
KARACHI -- Pulling country out of the existent debt crisis is among the top priorities of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI) said the party chief Imran Khan here Tuesday.
Summary: Los Angeles [United States], April 2 (ANI): Listen up, coffee aficionados, add a new caffeine fad to that long list of already existent varieties of coffee and let us all call it the mushroom one.
Le president de la Republique, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a adresse un message de felicitations a son homologue du Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado, a l'occasion de la celebration de l'anniversaire de l'independance de son pays, dans lequel il lui a fait part de sa disponibilite et sa pleine volonte a Auuvrer au renforcement des liens d'amitie et de cooperation qui existent entre les deux pays.
Following the first part, the essay delves into Schelling's final phase in grounding the positive philosophy, where the positive philosophy, starting from the absolute existent, grounds negative philosophy.