Existence /(?)/

Ex·ist·ence

Existence

n.
  1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence.
    The main object of our existence.
    — Lubbock.
  2. Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war.
    The existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but another word for its being perceived, or for the inferred possibility of perceiving it.
    — J. S. Mill.
  3. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.