Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases — Peter Mark Roget
ROGET'S THESAURUS | Project Gutenberg You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Author : Peter Mark Roget Release date : April 1, 2004 [eBook #10681] Most recently updated: October 28, 2024 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10681 Credits : Produced by L. John Old (Taken from Project Gutenberg's #22) *** START OF EXISTENCE 1. BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT #1. Existence — N. existence, being, entity, ens [Lat.] , esse [Lat.] , subsistence. reality, actuality; positiveness &c. adj.; fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth &c. 494 ; actual existence. presence &c. (existence in space) 186 ; coexistence &c. 120 . stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream &c. 515 ; no joke. center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle. [Science of existence], ontology. V. exist, be; have being &c. n.; subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur &c. (event) 151 ; have place, prevail; find oneself, pass the time, vegetate. consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by. come into existence &c. n.; arise &c. (begin) 66 ; come forth &c. (appear) 446 . become &c. (be converted) 144 ; bring into existence &c. 161 . abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay. Adj. existing &c. v.; existent, under the sun; in existence &c. n.; extant; afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent; undestroyed. real, actual, positive, absolute; true &c. 494 ; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential. well-founded, well-grounded; unideal † , unimagined; not potential &c. 2 ; authentic. Adv. actually &c. adj.; in fact, in point of fact, in reality; indeed; de facto, ipso facto. Phr. ens rationis [Lat.] ; ergo sum cogito [Lat.] , thinkest thou existence doth depend on time? [Byron]. #2. Inexistence — N. inexistence † ; nonexistence, nonsubsistence; nonentity, nil; negativeness &c. adj.; nullity; nihility † , nihilism; tabula rasa [Lat.] , blank; abeyance; absence &c. 187 ; no such thing &c. 4 ; nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion. annihilation; extinction &c. (destruction) 162 ; extinguishment, extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration. V. not exist &c. 1 ; have no existence &c. 1 ; be null and void; cease to exist &c. 1 ; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct &c. adj.; die out; disappear &c. 449 ; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind; go, be no more; die &c. 360 . annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate &c. 756 ; destroy &c. 162 ; take away; remove &c. (displace) 185 ; obliterate, extirpate. Adj. inexistent † , nonexistent &c. 1 ; negative, blank; missing, omitted; absent &c. 187 ; insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary. unreal, potential, virtual; baseless, in nubibus [Lat.] ; unsubstantial &c. 4 ; vain. unborn, uncreated † , unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade. perished, annihilated, &c. v.; extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind; defunct &c. (dead) 360 . fabulous, ideal &c. (imaginary) 515 , supposititious &c. 514 . Adv. negatively, virtually &c. adj.. Phr. non ens [Lat.] . 2. BEING, IN THE CONCRETE #3. Substantiality — N. substantiality, hypostasis; person, being, thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter &c. 316 ; corporeity † , element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part. [Totality of existences], world &c. 318 ; plenum. Adj. substantive, substantial; hypostatic; personal, bodily, tangible &c. (material) 316 ; corporeal. Adv. substantially &c. adj.; bodily, essentially. #4. Unsubstantiality — N. unsubstantiality † , insubstantiality; nothingness, nihility † ; no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing. nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a one, ne'er a one [Contr.] ; no such thing, none in the world; nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle &c. (smallness) 32 ; all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no consequence. thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter; nominis umbra [Lat.] , nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.] . shadow; phantom &c. (fallacy of vision) 443 ; dream &c. (imagination) 515 ; ignis fatuus [Lat.] &c. (luminary) 423 ; such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest]; air, thin air, vapor; bubble &c. 353 ; baseless fabric of a vision" [Tempest]; mockery. hollowness, blank; void &c. (absence) 187 . inanity, fool's paradise. V. vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away; disappear &c. 449 . Adj. unsubstantial; baseless, groundless; ungrounded; without foundation, having no foundation. visionary &c. (imaginary) 515 ; immaterial &c. 137 ; spectral &c. 980 ; dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal. vacant, vacuous; empty &c. 187 ; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane. Phr. there's nothing in it; an ocean of dreams without a sound" [Shelley]. 3. FORMAL EXISTENCE #5. Intrinsicality — N. intrinsicality † , inbeing † , inherence, inhesion † ; subjectiveness; ego; egohood † ; essence, noumenon; essentialness † &c. adj.; essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part &c. (importance) 642 . principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis † , diathesis † . habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; disposition. endowment, capacity; capability &c. (power) 157 . moods, declensions, features, aspects; peculiarities &c. (speciality) 79 ; idiosyncrasy, oddity; idiocrasy &c. (tendency) 176 ; diagnostics. V. be in the blood,