exist

to be; have existence; have being or reality

Verb

  1. to be; have existence; have being or reality
    • Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other - 1977, Lawrence S. Wrightsman with Kay Deaux, Social Psychology, page 366:
    • Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […] - 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 12:
    • […], regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards. - 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 19:

Origin

From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.

Forms

exists existing existed no-table-tags glossary exist existest existedst existeth -

Synonyms

be be a thing consist exist

Antonyms

cease unexist void

Hyponyms

breathe live subsist happen occur be the case obtain appear arise come into being emerge pop up spring to life surface bring forth create forthbring generate innate produce abide continue endure last

Related

existence existent existential there be there exist entity

Derived

coëxist coexist existability existable existible existless inexist postexist preexist superexist there exist unexist