[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

existence \exist"ence\, n. cf. f. existence.
   1. the state of existing or being; actual possession of
      being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and
      of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul;
      immortal existence.
      1913 webster

            the main object of our existence.     --lubbock.
      1913 webster

   2. continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of
      events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of
      a state of war.
      1913 webster

            the existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but
            another word for its being perceived, or for the
            inferred possibility of perceiving it. --j. s. mill.
      1913 webster

   3. that which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as,
      living existences.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

existence
     n 1: the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually
          coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries"
          syn: being, beingness ant: nonexistence, nonbeing
     2: everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution
        of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" syn: universe,
         creation, world, cosmos, macrocosm
see also:
being beingness nonexistence nonbeing universe creation 
world cosmos macrocosm 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

66 moby thesaurus words for "existence":
   accessibility, actual presence, actuality, an existence,
   animal spirits, animate existence, animation, availability, being,
   being alive, being here, being there, birth, body, continuance,
   continuation, creature, critter, duration, endurance, ens,
   entelechy, entity, essence, existent, fact, having life, hereness,
   immanence, immediacy, immortality, individual, individuality,
   indwellingness, inherence, life, lifetime, liveliness, living,
   long life, longevity, monad, object, occurrence, organism,
   permanence, persistence, person, persona, personality,
   physical presence, presence, quiddity, reality, something, soul,
   spiritual presence, spriteliness, thereness, thing, ubiety, unit,
   viability, vitality, vivacity, whereness

[4] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

existence, n.

    a transient, horrible, fantastic dream,
    wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:
    from which we're wakened by a friendly nudge
    of our bedfellow death, and cry:  "o fudge"

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