EXISTENCE
“EXISTENCE IS THE STATE OF BEING REAL. TO EXIST MEANS
TO HAVE BEING OR TO PARTICIPATE IN REALITY. EXISTENCE
IS WHAT SETS REAL ENTITIES APART FROM IMAGINARY ONES.
IT CAN REFER BOTH TO INDIVIDUAL ENTITIES OR TO THE TOTALITY OF REALITY.” (WWW.WIKIPEDIA.ORG)
EXIST (1600C)
(‘TO HAVE ACTUAL BEING OF ANY KIND’)
FROM FRENCH EXISTER ‘TO STEP OUT, ‘STAND FORTH’ ‘EMERGE’, ‘APPEAR’, ‘TO BE’) (WWW.ETYMONLINE.COM)
REAL (EARLY 14C)
(‘ACTUALLY EXISTING, HAVING PHYSICAL EXISTENCE (NOT IMAGINARY)
REAL (‘RELATING TO THINGS’)
(WWW.ETYMONLINE.COM)
REALITY (1540s)
(‘QUALITY OF BEING REAL’,
‘OBJECTIVE REALITY’)
FROM FRENCH REALITE
FROM MEDIEVAL LATIN REALITATEM
FROM LATE LATIN REALIS (‘REAL’)
(WWW.ETYMONLINE.COM)
BE, BEING (1300C)
(‘EXISTENCE’ IN ITS MOST COMPREHENSIVE SENSE’)
FROM BE (‘TO BE’, ‘TO EXIST’, ‘TO BECOME’)
BE PLUS -ING > BE-ING
(‘THAT WHICH PHYSICALLY EXISTS’)
(WWW.ETYMONLINE.COM)
TRUE
CONFORMING TO THE ACTUAL STATE OF REALITY OR FACT; FACTUALLY CORRECT.
(WWW.WIKTIONARY.ORG)
FACT
TRUTH, REALITY, ACTUALITY, VERITY, CERTAINTY.
(WWW.WIKTIONARY.ORG)
ACCORDING TO SCIENCE
IMMATERIAL CANNOT EXIST IN OUR UNIVERSE.
(WWW.SCIENCE.NASA.GOV)