entity en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɛn.tə.ti/ [-tʰi] (General-American)
- (US) audio
- /ˈɛn.tɪt.i/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
The organisational and administrative tasks involved in welding the railways into a single entity have also received much publicity.
1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 223:Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”.
2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo: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.
2024 October 23, Kara Scannell, “Trump Organization intends to create 25 entities for future product or hotel licensing deals, monitor says”, in CNN: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.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix:
- 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.
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The state or quality of being or existence.
The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
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A spirit, ghost, or the like.
[B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231:
- An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| entities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
entitylike · presentity · entity identifier · entity-relationship model · Entity Bean · entitize · superentity · nonentity · entity-relationship diagram · Entity List · Entity · entitative · subentity · entity alignment · entitic · entity tag
Holonyms
group · superentity · database
Hypernyms
entry · phenomenon · quoddity
Hyponyms
mobile entity · person · instance · creature · first-class entity · number · shape · animal · critter · presentity · third-class entity · being · microentity · geopolitical entity · Zionist entity · legal entity · object · bioentity · organism · political entity · molecular entity · second-class entity · artifact · thing · special-purpose entity · plant · micronational entity · thingy
Meronyms
Relateds
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 1. Existence · entirety · ens · duality · existence · identity · relationship · trinity
Synonyms
Translations (106)
nl wezen (that which exists as an individual unit) · fi tietokohde (computing: anything about which data can be stored) · be існава́нне (state or quality of existence) · fi kokonaisuus (that which exists as an individual unit) · fi olento (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · cs entita (that which exists as an individual unit) · ka ყოფიერება (state or quality of existence) · pt entidade (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · mk суштеству́вање (state or quality of existence) · fi olemassaolo (state or quality of existence) · lt esybė (that which exists as an individual unit) · mk е́динка (that which exists as an individual unit) · be і́снасць (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · cs entita (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · ca entitat (that which exists as an individual unit) · ga eintiteas (that which exists as an individual unit) · de Wesen (that which exists as an individual unit) · de Entität (that which exists as an individual unit) · cmn 本體 /本体 (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · ka ობიექტი (that which exists as an individual unit) · ru бытие́ (state or quality of existence) · ru су́щность (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · ru су́щность (computing: anything about which data can be stored) · nl entiteit (that which exists as an individual unit) · cmn 資料物件 /资料物件 (computing: anything about which data can be stored) · de Gebilde (that which exists as an individual unit) · de Ding (spirit, ghost, or the like) · ru существо́ (that which exists as an individual unit) · ga aonán (that which exists as an individual unit) · it entità (that which exists as an individual unit) · mk су́штество (that which exists as an individual unit) · it soggetto (that which exists as an individual unit) · sh ентѝте̄т (that which exists as an individual unit) · eo ento (that which exists as an individual unit) · ka არსება (that which exists as an individual unit) · de Wesen (spirit, ghost, or the like) · it esistenza (state or quality of existence) · el οντότητα (that which exists as an individual unit) · uk істо́та (that which exists as an individual unit) · de Existenz (state or quality of existence) · es entidad (that which exists as an individual unit) · cmn 整體 /整体 (that which exists as an individual unit) · be су́тнасць (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · cmn 幽靈 /幽灵 (spirit, ghost, or the like) · el οντότητα (computing: anything about which data can be stored) · cmn 存在性 (state or quality of existence) · sh entìtēt (that which exists as an individual unit) · de Instanz (that which exists as an individual unit) · fr entité (computing: anything about which data can be stored) · cmn 生命體 /生命体 ((science fiction) alien lifeform that has no corporeal body) · be істо́та (that which exists as an individual unit) · fr entité (that which exists as an individual unit) · grc ὀντότης (that which exists as an individual unit) · gu અસ્તિત્વ (that which exists as an individual unit) · da entitet (that which exists as an individual unit) · fi kummitus (spirit, ghost, or the like) · cy endid (that which exists as an individual unit) · he יְשׁוּת (that which exists as an individual unit) · bg съществу́ване (state or quality of existence) · ar كِيَان (that which exists as an individual unit) · hi अस्तित्वी (that which exists as an individual unit) · pl istnienie (state or quality of existence) · bg същество́ (that which exists as an individual unit) · uk існува́ння (state or quality of existence) · fi olio (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · it entità (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · ru существова́ние (state or quality of existence) · ko 실재 (that which exists as an individual unit) · ja 実体 (that which exists as an individual unit) · eo ento (state or quality of existence) · mk посто́ење (state or quality of existence) · de Einheit (that which exists as an individual unit) · uk су́тність (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · ur ہستی (that which exists as an individual unit) · ka არსი (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · fi olento (that which exists as an individual unit) · ga aonán (computing: anything about which data can be stored) · ru объе́кт (that which exists as an individual unit) · fi entiteetti (computing: anything about which data can be stored) · ka ერთეული (computing: anything about which data can be stored) · fi entiteetti (that which exists as an individual unit) · it elemento (computing: anything about which data can be stored) · mi rangatōpū (that which exists as an individual unit) · lt subjektas (that which exists as an individual unit) · fi entiteetti (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · pt entidade (that which exists as an individual unit) · be аб'е́кт (that which exists as an individual unit) · pl istnienie (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · de Rechtspersönlichkeit (that which exists as an individual unit) · cmn 實體 /实体 (that which exists as an individual unit) · sk entita (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · fi kohde (computing: anything about which data can be stored) · de Entität (computing: anything about which data can be stored) · mi hinonga (that which exists as an individual unit) · uk об'є́кт (that which exists as an individual unit) · pl jednostka (that which exists as an individual unit) · mi hinonga (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · fi olio (that which exists as an individual unit) · es entidad (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · de Dasein (state or quality of existence) · pl istnienie (that which exists as an individual unit) · de Gebilde (spirit, ghost, or the like) · sk entita (that which exists as an individual unit) · fi eteerinen olento ((science fiction) alien lifeform that has no corporeal body) · fr entité (existence of something considered apart from its properties) · eo ento (existence of something considered apart from its properties)