Entity
['entɪtɪ] or ['ɛntəti]
Definition
(noun.) that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving).
Checked by Carlton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Being, existence, essence.
Typist: Preston
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Existence, being
ANT:Nonentity, chimera
Typed by Carolyn
Definition
n. being: existence: a real substance.
Typed by Gladys
Examples
- The person or entity that provided you with the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a refund. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We are only too given to making an entity out of the abstract noun consciousness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But to live mechanised and cut off within the motion of the will, to live as an entity absolved from the unknown, that is shameful and ignominious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They regarded the individual mind as a separate entity, complete in each person, and isolated from nature and hence from other minds. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This would be perfectly decisive, were there no medium betwixt the infinite divisibility of matter, and the non-entity of mathematical points. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Two non-entities cannot exclude each other from their places; because they never possess any place, nor can be endowed with any quality. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- These simple and indivisible parts, not being ideas of extension, must be non entities, unless conceived as coloured or solid. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And as to ideas, entities, abstractions, and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Typist: Melville