existence

existence
/Ig'zIstFns/ noun
1 (U) the state of existing: It is impossible to prove the existence of God. | be in existence (=exist at a particular time): There are three different versions of his health record currently in existence. | come into existence (=start to exist): Scientists have many theories about how the universe first came into existence.
2 (countable usually singular) the type of life that someone has, especially when it is bad or unhappy: Pablo led a lonely existence when he first moved to San Juan. | I don't call this a life, it's an existence. | eke out an existence (=get just enough food or money to live on): Farmers eked out a primitive existence on the dry, stony land. | sb's/sth's very existence (=the fact that something exists at all, especially when something could prevent it from existing): a drug on which his very existence depended

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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