APA Dictionary of Psychology

existence

Updated on 04/19/2018
n.
  1. being: the quality by virtue of which something is, and which distinguishes it from what is not.
  2. in existentialism, the concrete lived experience of human beings rooted in a concrete world, as opposed to a more abstract concept of a human being, such as an essence. —existent adj.
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