existent

[ ig-zis-tuhnt ]

adjective

1. existing; having existence.
2. now existing.

noun

1. a person or thing that exists.

Other Words From

• quasi-ex·istent adjective
• unex·istent adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of existent¹

1555–65; < Latin existent- (stem of existēns ), present participle of existere to exist; -ent

Example Sentences

About 200 people may have bought funeral plans that were non existent from a Hull funeral home at the centre of a police inquiry, an MP has claimed.

From BBC

“It was exciting. Love was not prevalent or even existent in our backgrounds. So when we experienced this love from the audience, it was amazing. The dream was always to become singers, songwriters, producers, performers. People think we were the ones orchestrating everything when in fact we fell into a trap, signed a contract with no attorney, no management, no protection.”

From Los Angeles Times

Have they quantified the quality of all existent matter, living and not: that all things inherit a story in data to tell, and that our stories are told by the very forms we take to tell them?

From Salon

Kennedy also offers a politics that appeals directly to the small, but existent, left side of the political horseshoe.

From Slate

Trying to experience the Shankaracharya’s wisdom in a different way, I thought of the statement “Zero is an existent entity” and repeated it like a mantra in my head.

From Literature