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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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... "I have shown you what a fool a tender-hearted soft-headed fellow may make of himself by yielding to his impulses. But I have a defence to offer, my dear sir, the best of excuses, the only real excuse existing in this world. I couldn't ...

— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley

... are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained, the existing gold standard ...

— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus

... by good judges that the war was prolonged by the jealousy existing between Union commanders who wanted to be President or something else, and that it took so much time for the generals to keep their eyes on caucuses and county papers at home that they fought best when surprised and attacked ...

— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

... held my present opinions, I should surely have had a very insufficient perception of the mode in which the consequences of the inferior position of women intertwine themselves with all the evils of existing society and with all the difficulties of human improvement. I am indeed painfully conscious of how much of her best thoughts on the subject I have failed to reproduce, and how greatly that little treatise falls short of what would have been if ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers • Elbert Hubbard

... different in this way from his fellows? Because he was born so, because his parents were so, because he was bred so, because it seemed natural and convenient to remain so,—custom and environment had made his religion. Because Jesus Christ dared to attack their existing customs and beliefs, the Jews, then powerful, first reviled, then feared, then slew him; because the Jews could not honestly say, 'I believe this man to be a God,' they were hurled from their eminence and dragged, living, for centuries in the dust. And yet why? ...

— Other Things Being Equal • Emma Wolf

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