Entity

Noun

 * 1) That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
 * It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
 * 1) An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence.
 * 2)  An organized array or set of individual elements or parts.
 * 3) The state or quality of being or existence.
 * The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
 * 1) * Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity -- G.F.Kennan
 * 1) * Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity -- G.F.Kennan

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:entity

Derived terms

 * entitative
 * entity-relationship model
 * geopolitical entity
 * legal entity
 * nonentity

Related terms

 * duality
 * trinity
 * relationship

Adjectives
abstract; operative; self-acting.

Thesaurus
an existence, article, being, body, creature, critter, ens, entelechy, esse, essence, existence, existent, individual, integer, integral, integrate, item, life, material, materiality, matter, module, monad, object, occurrence, organism, person, persona, personality, point, presence, quantity, quiddity, quintessence, single, singleton, something, soul, stuff, subsistence, substance, substantiality, sum, system, thing, totality, unit

Etymology
From Medieval Latin entitas < Latin, present participle of esse, "to be".

Translations

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