BEING meaning: Existence or essence of entities

We found 42 dictionaries that define the word being:

General (32 matching dictionaries)

being: Merriam-Webster.com
being: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
being: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
being: Collins English Dictionary
being: Vocabulary.com
Being, being: Wordnik
being: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
being: Wiktionary
being: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
being: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
being: Infoplease Dictionary
Being, being: Dictionary.com
being (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
being: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Being (Kotoko song), Being (album), Being (company), Being (disambiguation), Being, The Being (film), The Being: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Being: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
being: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
being: Rhymezone
being: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
being: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
BEING: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
being: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
being: Free Dictionary
being: Mnemonic Dictionary
being: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
being: Dictionary/thesaurus
being: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Being (theology), being: Legal dictionary
being: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Being (theology), being: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
being: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

being: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)

being: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website
Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (being)

▸ noun:  A living creature.
▸ noun:  The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
▸ noun:  (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
▸ noun:  (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.

Opposite:

nonexistence, absence, nothingness, void, non-being

Types:

human, animal, plant, fungus, protist, bacteria, archaea, virus, more...

Phrases:

not being, human being, being used, time being, being taken, more...

Adjectives:

human, well, whole, physical, spiritual, rational, individual, divine, economic, moral, very

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