EGAVE

entity

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 13.85 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
  2. noun The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
  3. noun Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.
  4. noun The state or quality of being or existence.
    The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
  5. noun A spirit, ghost, or the like.
  6. noun An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.

Similar words

something thing ens personality substantive moral identity unity status distinct

Often followed by

that is in and to of or which with

Word family

entities

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