1 | noun | the state or fact of existing 2 | noun | everything that exists anywhere

egz'istuhns (IPA: ɛɡzˈɪstəns)

ex-ist-ence (9 letters | 3 syllables)

1384 (Late Middle ages) (641 years ago)

Old French | Latin | German | Danish

written: 1462nd most common (1 in 13889 words) ( > 99% noun)

spoken: 3188th most common (1 in 83333 words)

(includes some inflected forms)

existences

being | beingness | existing | subsistence | cosmos | creation | macrocosm | universe | world (total: 9)

nonexistence

actuality | aliveness | animation | coexistence | eternity | life | living | possibility | possibleness | preexistence | presence | subsistence | timeless existence | timelessness | transcendence | ... (total: 19)

state | natural object

assistance | coexistence | consistence | distance | insistence | persistence | resistance | subsistence (total: 8) (based on typical American pronunciation)

(none among common words)

Mandarin Chinese: | 存在 (noun) Hindi: | आस्तित्व (noun) Arabic: | وُجود (noun) Spanish: | existencia (general) | existencia (presence) | existencia (philosophy) French: | existence (general) | existence (presence) | existence (philosophy)

The Nature of Existence

existence.com | existence.net | existence.info | existence.biz

Being (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

18 (International English) | 18 (North American English)