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BEINGNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beingness mean? 

BEINGNESS (noun)
  The noun BEINGNESS has 1 sense:

1. the state or fact of existingplay

  Familiarity information: BEINGNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEINGNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The state or fact of existing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

being; beingness; existence; face of the earth

Context example:

he appeared on the face of the earth one day

Hypernyms ("beingness" is a kind of...):

state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

Attribute:

existent; existing (having existence or being or actuality)

nonexistent (not having existence or being or actuality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beingness"):

actuality (the state of actually existing objectively)

eternity; timeless existence; timelessness (a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife)

preexistence (existing in a former state or previous to something else)

coexistence (existing peacefully together)

subsistence (the state of existing in reality; having substance)

presence (the state of being present; current existence)

life (the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living)

aliveness; animation; life; living (the condition of living or the state of being alive)

life (a characteristic state or mode of living)

transcendence; transcendency (a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience)

possibility; possibleness (capability of existing or happening or being true)


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