exist
verb/ɪɡˈzɪst/ · [ɪɡˈzɪst]
Etymology 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.
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Stative to be; have existence; have being or reality
- Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other1977, 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:
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- […], 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:
- […], which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 55:
- While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 50:
- Derived terms
- coëxist, coexist, existability, existable, existible, existless, inexist, postexist, preexist, superexist, there exist, unexist
- Related terms
- existence, existent, existential, there be, there exist, entity
- Hyponyms
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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, persist, prevail, remain, stand, stay, survive, reappear, respawn, resume, coexist, perdure, postexist, preexist