What is another word for mere existence?

Pronunciation: [mˈi͡əɹ ɛɡzˈɪstəns] (IPA)

"Mere existence" is a term which could be substituted with different synonyms, depending on the context of its usage. In the realm of philosophy and metaphysics, "mere existence" can be interchanged with "being", "essence", or even "existence-as-such". In the realm of literature, it can be replaced with "survival", "existence only", "substance", "soul", or "lifeblood". In the world of science, "mere existence" can be replaced with "pure being", "matter", "particle", "subatomic presence", or even "quanta". These synonyms provide multiple ways to describe the state of simply existing, which can unlock different understanding and interpretations of the meaning of life and reality.

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What are the hypernyms for Mere existence?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Mere existence

  • Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
    David Herbert Lawrence
  • Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
    Ayn Rand
  • There is as an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.
    Milton Friedman
  • What is success? It is an inner, an indescribable force, resourcefulness, power of vision; a consciousness that I am, by my mere existence, exerting pressure on the movement of life about me.
    Thomas Mann
  • It was just a colour out of space — a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.
    H. P. Lovecraft

Related words: the mere existence of something, the mere existence of life, the mere existence of war

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