existence

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of EXISTENCE

the fact of being or of being real <the existence of UFO's is something that people continue to argue about>

Synonyms actuality, corporality, corporeality, reality, subsistence, thingness

Related Words genuineness, realness; activity, animation, life; currency, presence, prevalence

Near Antonyms absence, dearth, lack, want; potentiality, virtuality

Antonyms inexistence, nonbeing, nonexistence, nothingness, unreality

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