Entity

Quick meaning: Entity is a noun meaning That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.

Meaning

That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.

More Meanings

1. The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
2. The state or quality of being or existence.
3. A spirit, ghost, or the like.
4. (science fiction) An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
5. (databases) 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.

Example Sentences

The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.

The organisational and administrative tasks involved in welding the railways into a single entity have also received much publicity.

[B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.

The monitor overseeing the Trump Organization’s finances wrote in its latest report that Donald Trump’s company intends to create 25 new entities for products or hotel licensing deals.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for entity

Depending on context, synonyms include something.

Antonyms for entity

Common opposites include nonentity, variety, unable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include something, thing, ens, personality, substantive, moral.

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