1. BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT reality, actuality; positiveness;
fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth [more]; actual
existence. stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream [more]; no
joke. center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality,
vital principle [science of existence], ontology. [Verbs] exist,
be; have being; subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the
case; occur (event) [more]; have place, prevail; find oneself,
pass the time, vegetate. consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be
contained in, be constituted by. abide, continue, endure, last,
remain, stay. real, actual, positive, absolute; true [more];
substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent;
essential. well-founded, well-grounded; unideal, unimagined; not
potential [more]; authentic.