existence
/ɛɡˈzɪs.təns/ noun B1- The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood. · In order to destroy evil, we must first acknowledge its existence.
- Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
Plural existences
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But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes, my comrade’s impatient and active nature could endure this drab existence no longer.
Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence.
He would certainly have been hung had this test been in existence.
Through it, as you know, I came into possession of the pills, the existence of which I had already surmised.
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