Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Being, in the Abstract

Existence

Nouns
  • existence, being, entity, subsistence. reality, actuality
  • positiveness etc. adj.
  • fact, matter of fact, sober reality
  • truth etc. [Object of knowledge.] Truth
  • actual existence. presence etc. (existence in space) Presence
  • coexistence etc. Synchronism. stubborn fact, hard fact
  • not a dream etc. Imagination
  • no joke. center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle. [Science of existence], ontology.
Verbs
  • exist, be
  • have being etc. n.
  • subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case
  • occur etc. (event) Eventuality
  • have place, prevail
  • find oneself, pass the time, vegetate. consist in, lie in
  • be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by. come into existence etc. n.
  • arise etc. (begin) Beginning
  • come forth etc. (appear) Visibility. become etc. (be converted) [Gradual change to something different.] Conversion
  • bring into existence etc. Production. abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay.
Adjectives
  • existing etc. v.
  • existent, under the sun
  • in existence etc. n.
  • extant
  • afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent
  • undestroyed. real, actual, positive, absolute
  • true etc. [Object of knowledge.] Truth
  • substantial, substantive
  • self-existing, self-existent
  • essential. well-founded, well-grounded
  • unideal, unimagined
  • not potential etc. Inexistence
  • authentic.
Adverbs
  • actually etc. adj.
  • in fact, in point of fact, in reality
  • indeed
  • de facto, ipso facto.
Phrases
  • thinkest thou existence doth depend on thinkest thou existence doth depend on time? [Byron].

Inexistence

Nouns
  • inexistence
  • nonexistence, nonsubsistence
  • nonentity, nil
  • negativeness etc. adj.
  • nullity
  • nihility, nihilism
  • blank
  • abeyance
  • absence etc. Absence
  • no such thing etc. Unsubstantiality
  • nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion. annihilation
  • extinction etc. (destruction) [Nonproduction.] Destruction
  • extinguishment, extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration.
Verbs
Adjectives
  • inexistent, nonexistent etc. Existence
  • negative, blank
  • missing, omitted
  • absent etc. Absence
  • insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary. unreal, potential, virtual
  • baseless
  • unsubstantial etc. Unsubstantiality
  • vain. unborn, uncreated, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade. perished, annihilated, c. v.
  • extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind
  • defunct etc. (dead) Death. fabulous, ideal etc. (imaginary) Imagination, supposititious etc. Supposition.
Adverbs
  • negatively, virtually etc. adj..