entity.
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
Meaning & usage
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
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.
The state or quality of being or existence.
The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
A spirit, ghost, or the like.
An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *ezom~*som Archaic Latin 𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌 (esom) Old Latin esum Latin sumbf. Latin ēns Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Medieval Latin entitāsbor. English entity From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.
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