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/ɪgzˈɪstɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Exist v. i. (past & past part. existed; pres. part. existing)

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. "Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist." "To conceive the world... to have existed from eternity."

To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist in water, nor fishes on land.

Synonyms: See Be.

adjective

existing adj.

Having existence or being or actuality; as, much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran. Opposite of nonexistent. (Narrower terms: active, alive; extant, surviving) Also See: extant.

Synonyms: existent.

Present. Opposite of absent.

Presently existing; as, the existing system.

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Etymology of 'Existing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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